Instructions
Agent Skills
Agent Skills (Instructions) for coding agents: 6 sources, including docs, an llms.txt, agent skills and a guide for agents, and the files that show a project uses it.
- Docs
- llms.txt
- Agent skill
- Guide
Sources
- agentskills.io (opens in a new tab)Docs · agentskills.io/home
- Skill specification (opens in a new tab)Docs · agentskills.io/specification
- Agent Skills llms.txt (opens in a new tab)llms.txt · agentskills.io/llms.txt
- skills.sh directory (opens in a new tab)Agent skill · skills.sh
- anthropics/skills (opens in a new tab)Agent skill · github.com/anthropics/skills
- Agent Skills in Claude (opens in a new tab)Guide · docs.claude.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview
How agents detect Agent Skills
Any of these in a repository tells an agent the project uses Agent Skills. How signals work.
- File
**/SKILL.md - File
.agents/skills/ - File
.claude/skills/