agent-skills

A system for reusable instructions that an agent can discover from its designated skills folder. These instructions can describe workflows such as release checks, debugging methods, or project conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize per-agent procedures, framework rules, debugging recipes, release checklists, and notes for particular tools.
Why use it?
It keeps specialized working instructions separate from the agent’s general role, so they can be reused when needed without putting every detail into the main prompt.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mblua/agentscommander/agent-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mblua/AgentsCommander
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,362 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01362
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00136

Measured 2d ago against content hash 73b6a1899eeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-skills scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/agents/agent-skills.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent skills

For developers ready to add reusable per-agent workflows. Skills are markdown documents AC discovers from each agent's canonical skills/ directory.

Agent skills are reusable instructions stored in an agent's canonical skills/ folder. Use them for workflows that are too specific for a general role prompt but useful enough to keep around, such as release checklists, framework conventions, debugging recipes, or tool-specific operating notes.

AgentsCommander scans the canonical Agent Matrix skills/ directory at session/context creation time when a canonical Matrix root is available. It reads only the first YAML frontmatter segment from each SKILL.md, injects a deterministic metadata index into the generated context, and does not inject all full SKILL.md bodies at startup.

Where Skills Live

For an Agent Matrix agent, skills live beside the agent's canonical role, memory, and plans:

This tree shows the skill-relevant canonical state only. Other Matrix entries, such as inbox/, outbox/, and config.json, are omitted here.

<project>/
+-- .ac/
    +-- _agent_dev-rust/
        +-- Role.md
        +-- memory/
        +-- plans/
        +-- skills/

When that agent runs inside a room replica, the generated AgentsCommander context allows writes to the origin Agent Matrix skills/ folder. That keeps skills canonical across replicas instead of copying them into one temporary room session.

Standalone agent folders can also contain a local skills/ folder, but AgentsCommander runtime discovery does not scan standalone local skills unless canonical Agent Matrix state is resolved. The canonical Root Agent directory ac-root-agent/ is the exception: its local skills/ directory is durable Root Agent state, seeded by AgentsCommander, and discovered in generated Root Agent context.

Minimal Skill Layout

Use one directory per skill. SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter is the validated entrypoint. name is optional and defaults to the skill directory name. description is recommended; when absent, AgentsCommander keeps the skill visible with a warning that the agent should inspect SKILL.md before use.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 161 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 73b6a1899eeb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-skills is an agent published in the GitHub repository mblua/AgentsCommander (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,362 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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