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Skills

Discover Claude Skills, Codex Skills, and reusable Agent Skills with install commands, source repositories, use cases, and security information.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about Agent Skills and safe installation

1

What are Agent Skills?

Agent Skills are reusable capability packages that an AI agent loads when needed. They commonly include a SKILL.md file, operating instructions, workflows, scripts, and optional resources. When a task matches the skill description, the agent reads the relevant content to perform specialized work.

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What are Claude Skills, and how do they work in Claude Code?

Claude Skills are skills designed for Claude Code or other Claude agent workflows. After installation, Claude Code can load the SKILL.md when a task matches its description. You should still review the instructions, scripts, dependencies, and permission scope before use.

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What are Codex Skills, and how do I install them?

Codex Skills are Agent Skills that OpenAI Codex can load to add domain knowledge, repeatable procedures, and tool workflows. They are typically installed from a source repository into a skills directory and then used by Codex when a matching task appears.

4

Which AI agents support Agent Skills?

The open SKILL.md pattern can be used or adapted by Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, VS Code, and other coding agents. Installation paths, triggering rules, and supported resources differ between products.

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Are community Agent Skills safe to install?

Treat a skill like code: inspect its SKILL.md, scripts, dependencies, requested permissions, and source repository before installation. Security badges are useful signals, not guarantees; use least privilege whenever a skill can access shells, networks, or credentials.

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How are duplicate Claude Skills, Codex Skills, and Agent Skills handled?

Entries are deduplicated by normalized source repository and skill identifier. When the same skill appears in several directories or awesome lists, or supports both Claude and Codex, its sources and compatibility data are merged into one record instead of creating duplicates.