The community guide to agent skills

Give your agent
a better way
to work.

Turn repeatable tasks into reusable skills. Learn the basics, build your first skill, and explore what the community is creating.

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Free guides. Open-source examples. A practical place to start.

release-note-writer / SKILL.md
---
name: release-note-writer
description: Draft clear release notes from a
  change list. Use when preparing a release.
---

# Release Note Writer

1. Read the supplied changes.
2. Group fixes and improvements.
3. Explain the impact for users.
4. Flag missing details. Never invent them.
A small file. A reusable way of working.
Learn the foundationsNo agent experience required
Build something usefulStart with a task you already know
Share & improveLearn from community examples
Start here

From curious to your first skill.

Three short guides to help you get moving.

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01 / BEGINNER

What is an agent skill?

Understand how reusable instructions help an agent carry out a task.

Learn the basics →02 / BEGINNER

Skills, prompts, and MCP

See how instructions, tools, and connections fit together.

See the comparison →03 / BEGINNER

Create your first SKILL.md

Write a small release-note skill and try it on a real change list.

Follow the guide →
COMMUNITY PROJECT

Product Support
Investigator

A community skill for investigating technical issues with the evidence available. Keep observations clear, identify missing information, and help users take the next useful step.

Explore the skill →View repository ↗
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE

“My web application returns a 500 error.”

  1. Identify the failing action and environment.
  2. Open browser DevTools → Network. Reproduce the issue and inspect the failing request.
  3. Record the endpoint, timestamp, response, and request ID if available.
  4. Use matching server logs to investigate further. Separate evidence from assumptions.

A useful next step, without guessing the root cause.

Better skills start with feedback

Test the behavior.
Improve the instructions.

Try the same task with and without a skill. Check whether it follows the task, handles missing details, and produces something useful.

Read the testing guide →
Research, in the open

Questions worth
investigating.

We’re exploring how textual skills influence an agent’s behavior. Public research notes distinguish questions and experiments from established findings.

Visit the research notebook →