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Use practical, step-by-step guidance to navigate the decisions, patterns, and trade-offs behind durable team workflows.
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Cross-agent sharing
Keep one team library visible while teammates use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, MCP, or a direct source workflow.
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Agent Skills: the open standard for extending AI agents
What AI agent skills are, what the Agent Skills specification defines, which agents implement it and where each one looks on disk, what actually travels between them, and where to read real examples. Every claim checked against first-party documentation.
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Agent Skills support: which AI clients read SKILL.md
A compatibility matrix for the Agent Skills format, checked on August 20, 2026. Eleven clients whose own documentation states they read SKILL.md, with the exact directories each one names, thirty-six more listed on the agentskills.io showcase, and the behavior nobody has documented.
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Anthropic skills: every first-party skill and where it loads
A catalog of the skills Anthropic itself publishes: four pre-built document skills, nineteen folders in the anthropics/skills repository, and thirteen bundled with Claude Code. What each one does, which surface loads it, and how it is licensed, checked against first-party sources on August 18, 2026.
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Claude Skills: what they are and how to use them
A Claude Skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that gives Claude reusable instructions and resources. The format, where skills run, how to install and write one, and how teams share them.
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How to write a SKILL.md file
The frontmatter fields, the description that decides whether a skill fires, the body budget, and the validation step. Checked against the Agent Skills specification and Anthropic documentation on 21 August 2026.
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Skill examples: eight real SKILL.md files, and the pattern each one teaches
Eight real Agent Skills from anthropics/skills, read file by file: what each SKILL.md does, the pattern worth copying, verbatim excerpts with their source, what all nineteen example skills actually declare in frontmatter, and the six places the examples disagree with the specification they are written to.
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How to install Claude skills in Claude Code
Where Claude Code stores skills on disk, every documented way to install one, and how to confirm it loaded. Checked against Anthropic documentation on 16 August 2026.
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Codex skills: what they are and how to use them
A Codex skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that OpenAI's coding agent loads on demand. The directories Codex scans, what carries over from a Claude skill, how to add one, and how teams keep a single answer per job.
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Cursor skills: what they are and how to use them
A Cursor skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that Cursor discovers at startup and loads when it is relevant. The directories Cursor scans, the frontmatter fields it documents, how to add one, and what teams decide next.
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OpenCode skills: what they are and how to use them
An OpenCode skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that OpenCode loads on demand through a built-in skill tool. The six directories it scans, the five frontmatter fields it recognizes, the allow, ask, and deny model it puts in front of every skill, what the OpenCode 2 beta changes, and how a team distributes one.
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Vercel skills: the official collection, and everything else with that name
Vercel skills means at least four different things. The nine Agent Skills in vercel-labs/agent-skills, a vercel skills CLI command, the npx skills tool Vercel builds, and Vercel's own docs directory. Every skill in the collection with its license and install count, the four whose folder name is not their skill name, what the README gets wrong about its own contents, and how a team keeps one answer per job.
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GitHub Copilot skills: what Copilot supports and how to use them
GitHub Copilot reads the same SKILL.md file the rest of the ecosystem reads. The five directories it scans, the surfaces where skills work and the two where they do not, the frontmatter fields VS Code adds on top of the specification, how gh skill installs and pins one, and where custom instructions still beat a skill.
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Claude Cowork skills: how they load and where a team keeps them
What a skill is inside Claude Cowork, how a session finds and invokes one, the four channels that put a skill in front of it, what changes between desktop, web, and mobile, and how to write one. Every claim checked against first-party documentation.
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AGENTS.md vs SKILL.md: two formats, two different jobs
AGENTS.md describes your repository to a coding agent. SKILL.md packages one reusable capability. What each format is, which agents read which, minimal examples of both, and how they work together.
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How to share AI agent skills with your team
A practical workflow to share AI agent skills across a team, set ownership, compare distribution models, and keep one visible team library.
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Manage skills across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor
Use one source of truth to manage SKILL.md workflows across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor without confusing portability with automatic synchronization.
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How to use a shared AI skill library through MCP
Connect an MCP-compatible agent to a shared team skill library, authorize access in the browser, search the team library, and verify a useful handoff.
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Team governance and onboarding
Choose useful skills, define accountable workflows, and help a second teammate reproduce the result without private context.
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How to manage AI skills across an organization
Skills scatter across personal folders, repositories, and accounts, and every vendor mechanism for distributing them stops at that vendor's own products. What each one covers, what a team has to solve itself, and how to keep one answer everyone can find. Sources checked on August 21, 2026.
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Where to find Claude skills: marketplaces, directories, and repos
There is no Anthropic skills marketplace. What exists instead: the official Claude Code plugin marketplace, the claude.com plugin catalog, skills.sh, the anthropics/skills repository, awesome lists, and vendor repos, with what each one is and is not.
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Best Claude skills: a register with the criteria behind it
Twenty-seven register entries covering thirty-five Claude skills that cleared a stated bar, grouped by the job they do, each read from its own SKILL.md on August 19, 2026. Includes the seven criteria we applied, what every entry is licensed under, and the nine popular things we dropped and why.
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How to choose the first AI agent skill for your team
Evaluate AI agent skills with a selection scorecard, source review, disqualifier check, and teammate test before your team settles on one.
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AI skills onboarding checklist for a new teammate
Use this AI skills onboarding checklist to help a new teammate find one skill the team already uses, choose a suitable path, and verify it on a real task.
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AI agent skill use cases for teams: 8 repeatable workflows
Explore eight practical AI agent skill use cases for teams, with clear triggers, safe inputs, reviewable outputs, human checks, and stop boundaries.
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AI coding practices
Turn coding-agent experiments into bounded team guidance, review gates, and repeatable engineering workflows.
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AI coding guidelines template for engineering teams
Use this AI coding guidelines template to define allowed work, trusted context, verification, human handoffs, and ownership for a team using coding agents.
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How to onboard your engineering team to AI coding tools
A practical AI coding team onboarding plan: choose one workflow, provide trusted context, set review gates, and measure adoption before expanding tool access.
Turn a useful workflow into a skill the team can find.
Keep the source, setup path, and operating notes in one searchable library your teammates can return to.