- name
- add-community-skill
- description
- Adding a Community Agent Skill: a Markdown attack-workflow file that users import from the catalog, which then competes in the Intent Router and is injected into the agent's system prompt. No Python, no rebuild - but it must name only real tools and stay classifiable. Trigger: adding or editing a .md workflow under agentic/community-skills/; authoring an importable attack skill (not a hardcoded one); editing the community-skills catalog or its README.
- license
- MIT
- metadata
- {"author":"redamon","version":"1.0.0","scope":["agentic"],"auto_invoke":["Adding a Community Agent Skill (importable .md attack workflow)"]}
## When to Use
- Shipping a battle-tested attack workflow as an importable `.md`, without
hardcoding it into Python.
For a hardcoded, first-class skill (9-layer wiring, badge, per-project toggle),
use `builtin-agent-skill` instead. For a reference/theory doc rather than a
workflow, that is a Community Chat Skill (different flow).
---
## Critical Rules
- **NEVER invent tool names.** Every step must name a key of `TOOL_REGISTRY`
([agentic/prompts/tool_registry.py](../../agentic/prompts/tool_registry.py)):
`query_graph`, `kali_shell`, `execute_curl`, `execute_code`,
`execute_playwright`, `execute_nuclei`, `execute_hydra`, `execute_ffuf`, ...
A step naming a non-existent tool is dead on arrival.
- **NEVER call a `kali_shell` CLI that is not installed AND documented.** The
binary must be in [mcp/kali-sandbox/Dockerfile](../../mcp/kali-sandbox/Dockerfile)
and named in the `kali_shell` description (the `kali_toolbox` MCP tool serves
that text verbatim; an unlisted binary does not exist for MCP clients). Prefer a
tool already installed. A new one is an agent-tool change:
[PROMPT.ADD_AGENTIC_TOOL.md](../../docs/readmes/coding_agent_prompts/PROMPT.ADD_AGENTIC_TOOL.md)
Type A (pinned install, description, stealth rule, smoke test). Every wordlist or
file path a command uses must exist in the image too.
- **NEVER rebuild the agent for the `.md` alone.** `./agentic/community-skills` is
volume-mounted **read-only** into the container
(the agent's `./agentic/community-skills:/app/community-skills:ro` volume in
[docker-compose.yml](../../docker-compose.yml)); the `GET /community-skills`
endpoint auto-discovers by globbing the directory. Drop the file and it is live
on the next call. (This is the exception to "agentic/ changes need a rebuild" -
that applies to baked Python, not the mounted skills dirs.) A skill that needs a
NEW kali CLI is not rebuild-free: rebuild kali-sandbox AND agent.
- **NEVER write a description that overlaps a built-in skill.** Imported skills
compete with built-ins in the Intent Router; a generic or overlapping opening
paragraph means the classifier never selects it. Make the first paragraph and
the description distinct. If the skill covers the same attack class as a
built-in (`KNOWN_ATTACK_PATHS` in `agentic/state.py`), add a
`vs. <builtin> (built-in)` line telling the user to disable that built-in on
import.
- **Commands must be copy-pasteable** in fenced blocks - no pseudo-code. The
markdown content is injected verbatim into the system prompt.
- **Remember it is per-user, not global.** Users import via Global Settings >
Agent Skills; already-imported users do NOT auto-pick-up new skills (they
re-import; duplicates are skipped by name). The same skip means an EDIT to a
shipped skill never reaches existing importers: they must delete the old copy
and re-import. Say so in the CHANGELOG.
---
## Commands
```bash
# No build. Drop the file and confirm discovery:
ls agentic/community-skills/ # your new <skill>.md lives here
# GET /community-skills globs this dir; the row lands in the Postgres UserAttackSkill
# table only after a user clicks "Import from Community".
```
If [agentic/community-skills/README.md](../../agentic/community-skills/README.md)
has a skills table, add a row (check the file first; do not invent structure).
## Resources
- [docs/readmes/coding_agent_prompts/PROMPT.ADD_COMMUNITY_AGENT_SKILL.md](../../docs/readmes/coding_agent_prompts/PROMPT.ADD_COMMUNITY_AGENT_SKILL.md) - full authoring flow, classification tips, troubleshooting
- Related skill: `builtin-agent-skill`
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