How to Use Vercel Skills

Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that AI agents can discover and use. The format is an open standard supported by 40+ agents including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cline, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, Roo Code, and many others.

When to Use This Skill

• Creating a new agent skill from scratch
• Structuring a SKILL.md file with correct frontmatter and body
• Adding install commands to a website, README, or documentation
• Publishing skills so they appear on skills.sh
• Understanding how the skills CLI works (install, find, list, update, remove)
• Organizing a repository that contains multiple skills

Skill File Structure

A skill is a directory containing at minimum a SKILL.md file. The directory name must exactly match the name field in the frontmatter.