example

name	example
description	An example skill demonstrating the skill file format

This is a sample skill file. Skills are stored in skills/{name}/SKILL.md and provide specialized knowledge that the agent can load on demand via the load_skill tool.

Frontmatter

Each skill file starts with YAML frontmatter between --- delimiters:

• name (optional): defaults to the parent directory name
• description (required): one-line summary shown in the system prompt

Usage

The agent sees skill names and descriptions in its system prompt. When it needs the full content, it calls load_skill with the skill name. The body below the frontmatter is returned wrapped in <skill> tags.