Agent Skills directory

Curated SKILL.md skills that teach your agent how to do a task well — documents, testing, debugging, workflows and more. Every skill works across Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI, with copy-paste install commands and a transparent trust signal. New to this? See Skills vs MCP →

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FAQ — Agent Skills

  • What is an agent skill?

    A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file — markdown instructions plus optional scripts — that an AI agent loads on demand to perform a specific task well. Anthropic introduced skills for Claude in October 2025 and opened the SKILL.md format as a standard, so the same skill works across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and more.

  • How are skills different from MCP servers?

    MCP servers connect an agent to external tools and data (a database, GitHub, Slack). Skills are lightweight know-how — they teach the agent how to do a task and cost only a few dozen tokens until loaded. They are complementary: see our Skills vs MCP guide for when to use which.

  • How do I install a skill?

    Either run the skills CLI (npx skills add owner/repo --skill name) or git clone the repo into ~/.claude/skills/. Skills load automatically when relevant — no extra configuration. Every skill page here has copy-paste commands.

  • Are these skills safe to run?

    Skills can ship scripts and execute code, so provenance matters. Each skill on Loadout shows a transparent trust signal — official vs community, whether it runs code, and whether it touches the network — so you can review before installing.