Agent skills are portable sets of instructions, scripts, and resources that teach AI agents how to perform specific tasks. They follow the open Agent Skills specification, and work across multiple agent hosts including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI among others. With the new gh skill command, you can now install agent skills in a single command, right from the GitHub CLI.
Manage agent skills with GitHub CLI - GitHub Changelog… Pin to a release tag gh skill install github/awesome-copilot documentation-writer --pin v1.2.0 Pin to a commit for maximum reproducibility gh skill install github/awesome-copilot documentation-writer --pin abc123def Publish your own skills If you maintain a skills repository, gh skill publish valid… …
… Use agent skills : Agent skills are now discovered from additional locations including .claude/skills/ and .agents/skills/ directories alongside the existing .github/skills/ paths, broadening compatibility so teams can organize skills in the convention that fits their workflow. …
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… Skills and prompt files : How skills and prompt files are discovered, loaded, and invoked from chat. …
… Plugins support many extensibility types and can be installed automatically, helping improve developer onboarding and reduce setup time by broadly sharing custom agents and skills. …
… Level 4 adds org-approved skills and persistent memory. …
… Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI or take the Skills course Tags: GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot CLI GitHub Skills Written by Senior Service Delivery Engineer, GitHub Related posts AI & ML Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows Agentic workflows that run on every pull request can q… …
… Simplify customization and debugging Chat customizations editor: Create and manage all your instructions, custom agents, skills, and plugins from one unified interface. …