Agent skill guides
Practical, source-backed guides for creating, testing, installing, and carrying agent skills between modern AI tools.
What is an agent skill? A practical guide to reusable agent work
Learn what agent skills contain, when they load, how they differ from prompts and permanent instructions, and how to design one useful workflow.
Read guideCreate your first agent skill in SkillForge
Turn one repeated job into a focused, reviewable SKILL.md using plain-language input, a protected example, visible proposals, and a practical test.
Read guideLearn from strong skills without copying them
Compare a target with a protected reference, capture the exact passage that works, explain its effect, and apply the pattern without copying identity.
Read guideReview AI changes before they reach your skill
Inspect section-level proposals against the current target, reference evidence, and intended effect before accepting, editing, rejecting, or saving.
Read guideDownload and install SkillForge on Windows and macOS
Understand the verified Windows download, local Codex and Claude connection, file safety, browser alternative, and current macOS signing status.
Read guideHow to write a SKILL.md file that an agent can actually use
Build a focused SKILL.md with precise triggers, useful boundaries, progressive detail, supporting resources, and an observable definition of done.
Read guideClaude Code skills: create, place, trigger, and test SKILL.md
Use Claude Code skills with the right scope, frontmatter, supporting files, explicit invocation, automatic triggers, and practical evaluation prompts.
Read guideOpenAI Codex skills: authoring, discovery, invocation, and distribution
Create portable skills for Codex, choose repository or personal scope, design reliable descriptions, test activation, and understand plugin distribution.
Read guideGemini CLI agent skills: folders, trust, triggers, and safe reuse
Create and manage Gemini CLI skills with correct discovery paths, precise descriptions, workspace trust, progressive disclosure, and secure resources.
Read guideGrok skills: use SKILL.md with xAI’s coding agent and Claude compatibility
Understand Grok skill locations, frontmatter, invocation controls, plugins, marketplace support, AGENTS.md behavior, and Claude-compatible reuse.
Read guideskills.sh guide: discover, inspect, install, update, and publish agent skills
Use the skills CLI and skills.sh directory safely: inspect packages, choose scope, install specific skills, manage updates, and publish from Git.
Read guidev0, Vercel, and agent skills: where each part of the workflow fits
Understand what v0 builds, what Vercel hosts, where skills.sh fits, and how to carry an agent-skill workflow into a deployed application.
Read guideMeta Llama and agent skills: build the adapter in the agent harness
Use a portable SKILL.md with Meta Llama by mapping its metadata, instructions, resources, and tools into the Llama agent harness you control.
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