Creating Agent Skills

Skills extend agent capabilities with domain-specific knowledge. Use skills for procedural knowledge the agent lacks, not concepts it already understands.

If guidance is project-specific or one-off, use INSTRUCTIONS.md or inline context instead.

Create new skills under /Users/nicholasgriffin/Documents/GitHub/machine-setup/ai-tooling/skills.

Structure

Required Frontmatter

Every SKILL.md must start with YAML frontmatter on line 1: