A practice, written down
Engineering judgment that usually lives in a senior reviewer's head gets committed to a file the agent can read.
skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Production-grade
Give your coding agent the habits of a senior engineer.
agent-skills is a set of production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. Each skill is a written practice the agent can load and follow, instead of a prompt you rewrite from memory every session.
Read at the moment it applies
The agent pulls the skill when the task calls for it, so the guidance arrives in context rather than in a preamble.
loaded on demand
Same practice, every repo
A skill written once travels to the next project, which is the difference between a habit and a lucky prompt.
portable across projects
Card structure above is illustrative. The project description defines these as production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
Why write the skill down
An agent that gets told the practice once forgets it at the next context boundary. An agent that can read the practice keeps it.
1
Capture
Write the engineering practice as text, with the reasoning attached, not just the rule.
2
Load
The agent reads it when the work matches, so the standard is present during the work.
3
Reuse
The same file applies on the next repository, and improving it improves every future run.