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Agent skill
manage-skills
Searches the SkillsMP registry, installs skills locally or globally, creates custom skills with SKILL.md frontmatter, and manages the skill lifecycle. Use when the user wants to find skills, add new capabilities, install a skill, browse available skills, create a custom skill, or manage the skills system.
Install this agent skill to your Project
npx add-skill https://github.com/open-gitagent/gitagent/tree/main/examples/gitagent-helper/skills/manage-skills
Metadata
Additional technical details for this skill
- author
- gitagent
- version
- 1.0.0
- category
- skills
SKILL.md
Manage Skills
When to Use
When a user wants to find skills, install them, create new ones, or understand the skills system.
Verify Installation
After installing a skill, confirm it's available:
gitagent skills list -d ./my-agent | grep "code-review"
Search Skills
# Search SkillsMP registry
gitagent skills search "code review"
# Search GitHub
gitagent skills search "pdf reader" --provider github
# Limit results
gitagent skills search "testing" --limit 5
Install Skills
# Install from SkillsMP to agent-local skills/
gitagent skills install code-review -d ./my-agent
# Install globally to ~/.agents/skills/
gitagent skills install code-review --global
# Install from GitHub
gitagent skills install owner/repo#skills/my-skill --provider github
List Skills
# Show all discovered skills (local + global)
gitagent skills list -d ./my-agent
# Only agent-local skills
gitagent skills list -d ./my-agent --local
Inspect a Skill
gitagent skills info code-review -d ./my-agent
Shows: name, description, license, allowed tools, metadata, optional directories.
Create a Skill
- Create directory:
skills/<name>/ - Create
SKILL.mdwith frontmatter:
---
name: my-skill
description: What this skill does (max 1024 chars)
license: MIT
allowed-tools: Read Edit Grep Glob Bash
metadata:
author: your-name
version: "1.0.0"
category: developer-tools
---
# Instructions
[Detailed instructions for using this skill.
Keep under ~5000 tokens / ~20000 characters.]
- Reference it in
agent.yaml:
skills:
- my-skill
- Validate:
gitagent validate -d ./my-agent
Skill Discovery Paths
Skills are found in this order (first match wins):
| Priority | Path |
|---|---|
| 1 | <agent>/skills/ |
| 2 | <agent>/.agents/skills/ |
| 3 | <agent>/.claude/skills/ |
| 4 | <agent>/.github/skills/ |
| 5 | ~/.agents/skills/ |
Optional Directories in Skills
scripts/— Executable scripts the skill can referencereferences/— Reference documentsassets/— Images, static filesagents/— Skill-specific sub-agents
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