Agent Skills Standard

by magnus919

Agent Skills Standard is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by magnus919 in agent-skills.

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Install Agent Skills Standard

Copy Agent Skills Standard into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills/tree/main/agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/agent-skills

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: agent-skills/SKILL.md in magnus919/agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/agent-skills
Collection: One of 33 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Agent Skills Standard does

Provides a standardized format and workflow for creating, reviewing, and implementing agent skills for AI agents, including directory structure, metadata, evals, and best practices.

Agent Skills Standard is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Agent Skills Standard comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentskills, ai-agents, automation and llm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Agent Skills Standard Reference

This skill documents the Agent Skills open format — a standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise. Follow this workflow when creating or editing skills in this repository.

Authoritative source: agentskills.io/specification. The bundled specification is a working snapshot; check the authoritative source when currentness matters.

Directory Structure

A skill is a directory containing, at minimum, a SKILL.md file:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Agent Skills Standard

What else does magnus919 publish alongside Agent Skills Standard?
Agent Skills Standard is one of 33 skills that DirSkills catalogs from magnus919/agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ADR Authoring, API Design and Evolution and ARR CLI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Agent Skills Standard does, and is maintained by magnus919 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the magnus919/agent-skills page.
How does Agent Skills Standard compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Agent Skills Standard ranks #3517 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Agent Skills Standard against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.