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Jonathan Hefner
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Adds a Discord entry to the Getting Started list in `README.md` and replaces the standalone "View on GitHub" link in `docs/home.mdx` with a sentence inviting readers to join on GitHub or Discord. Also applies minor formatting cleanup in `README.md`: bolds the link text and switches hyphens to em dashes for consistency. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
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title: "Overview"
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description: "A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise."
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---
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import { LogoCarousel } from '/snippets/LogoCarousel.jsx';
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Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use to do things more accurately and efficiently.
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## Why Agent Skills?
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Agents are increasingly capable, but often don't have the context they need to do real work reliably. Skills solve this by giving agents access to procedural knowledge and company-, team-, and user-specific context they can load on demand. Agents with access to a set of skills can extend their capabilities based on the task they're working on.
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**For skill authors**: Build capabilities once and deploy them across multiple agent products.
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**For compatible agents**: Support for skills lets end users give agents new capabilities out of the box.
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**For teams and enterprises**: Capture organizational knowledge in portable, version-controlled packages.
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## What can Agent Skills enable?
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- **Domain expertise**: Package specialized knowledge into reusable instructions, from legal review processes to data analysis pipelines.
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- **New capabilities**: Give agents new capabilities (e.g. creating presentations, building MCP servers, analyzing datasets).
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- **Repeatable workflows**: Turn multi-step tasks into consistent and auditable workflows.
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- **Interoperability**: Reuse the same skill across different skills-compatible agent products.
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## Adoption
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Agent Skills are supported by leading AI development tools.
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<LogoCarousel />
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## Open development
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The Agent Skills format was originally developed by [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/), released as an open standard, and has been adopted by a growing number of agent products. The standard is open to contributions from the broader ecosystem.
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Come join the discussion on [GitHub](https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills) or [Discord](https://discord.gg/MKPE9g8aUy)!
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## Get started
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<CardGroup cols={3}>
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<Card
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title="What are skills?"
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icon="lightbulb"
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href="/what-are-skills"
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Learn about skills, how they work, and why they matter.
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</Card>
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<Card
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title="Specification"
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icon="file-code"
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href="/specification"
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The complete format specification for SKILL.md files.
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</Card>
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<Card
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title="Add skills support"
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icon="gear"
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href="/client-implementation/adding-skills-support"
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Add skills support to your agent or tool.
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</Card>
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<Card
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title="Example skills"
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icon="code"
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href="https://github.com/anthropics/skills"
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Browse example skills on GitHub.
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</Card>
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<Card
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title="Reference library"
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icon="wrench"
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href="https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills/tree/main/skills-ref"
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>
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Validate skills and generate prompt XML.
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</Card>
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</CardGroup>
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