Skills

Skills are loaded INTO an agent’s context at invocation time. Unlike agents (which spawn as separate contexts), skills are passive expertise — Claude reads each skill’s description field and decides autonomously when to apply it.

See skills-vs-agents principle for the distinction.

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The sidebar autogenerates from this directory. Each page is one skill extracted from its subdirectory’s SKILL.md.

Also see

• Agents — active executors that spawn their own context
• Kernel index — all seven-artifact kernel targets