manage-skills

name	manage-skills
description	Searches the SkillsMP registry, installs skills locally or globally, creates custom skills with SKILL.md frontmatter, and manages the skill lifecycle. Use when the user wants to find skills, add new capabilities, install a skill, browse available skills, create a custom skill, or manage the skills system.
license	MIT
metadata	{"author":"gitagent","version":"1.0.0","category":"skills"}

Manage Skills

When to Use

When a user wants to find skills, install them, create new ones, or understand the skills system.

Verify Installation

After installing a skill, confirm it's available:

opengap skills list -d ./my-agent | grep "code-review"

Search Skills

# Search SkillsMP registry
opengap skills search "code review"

# Search GitHub
opengap skills search "pdf reader" --provider github

# Limit results
opengap skills search "testing" --limit 5

Install Skills

# Install from SkillsMP to agent-local skills/
opengap skills install code-review -d ./my-agent

# Install globally to ~/.agents/skills/
opengap skills install code-review --global

# Install from GitHub
opengap skills install owner/repo#skills/my-skill --provider github

List Skills

# Show all discovered skills (local + global)
opengap skills list -d ./my-agent

# Only agent-local skills
opengap skills list -d ./my-agent --local

Inspect a Skill

opengap skills info code-review -d ./my-agent

Shows: name, description, license, allowed tools, metadata, optional directories.

Create a Skill

1. Create directory: skills/<name>/
2. Create SKILL.md with frontmatter:

---
name: my-skill
description: What this skill does (max 1024 chars)
license: MIT
allowed-tools: Read Edit Grep Glob Bash
metadata:
  author: your-name
  version: "1.0.0"
  category: developer-tools
---

# Instructions

[Detailed instructions for using this skill.
Keep under ~5000 tokens / ~20000 characters.]

3. Reference it in agent.yaml:

skills:
  - my-skill

4. Validate:

opengap validate -d ./my-agent

Skill Discovery Paths

Skills are found in this order (first match wins):

Priority	Path
1	<agent>/skills/
2	<agent>/.agents/skills/
3	<agent>/.claude/skills/
4	<agent>/.github/skills/
5	~/.agents/skills/

Optional Directories in Skills

• scripts/ — Executable scripts the skill can reference
• references/ — Reference documents
• assets/ — Images, static files
• agents/ — Skill-specific sub-agents