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effective-agent-skills

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai (GitHub) · coding · 99 stars · scanned at commit e797ed5

How to write effective agent skills — what to do, what not to do, anatomy, progressive disclosure, design patterns, anti-patterns, testing, security. Read this whenever a skill (Claude Skill, Agent Skill, SKILL.md) is being created, edited, reviewed, or debugged. Use when the user says "create a skill", "new skill", "update this skill", "improve a skill", "why isn't my skill triggering", or anything else involving authoring or editing SKILL.md files.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'effective-agent-skills' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'effective-agent-skills' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named effective-agent-skills already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e797ed58cfe6dd6453fe7632f89d7226d203f6f6' -- 'cursor-claude-codex/skills/david-ondrej/skill-authoring/effective-agent-skills' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'cursor-claude-codex/skills/david-ondrej/skill-authoring/effective-agent-skills' ~/.agents/skills/'effective-agent-skills' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'effective-agent-skills' ~/.claude/skills/'effective-agent-skills' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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