AI agents get much more useful when they do not have to rediscover your workflow every time. That is the idea behind skills: reusable instructions, scripts and references that teach an agent how to do a specific kind of work. What a skill is A skill is usually a small, versioned package of instructions. At minimum, it contains a Markdown file that tells the agent: when to use the skill what steps to follow which tools or commands matter what output should look like what constraints apply Some skills also include scripts, templates or reference files. Why not just use a prompt? Prompts are great for one-off work. Skills are better for repeated workflows. If you always paste the same prompt before a code review, release note draft or QA checklist, that prompt is doing the job of a process document. A skill makes that process explicit.…