skill-structure

A set of rules for organising UiPath skill folders and writing their SKILL.md instruction files. It defines naming, metadata, document structure, reference-file conventions, and build-time variants.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating a UiPath skill, its references, templates, flavor markers, or package metadata. It helps check folder layout, descriptions, headings, and supported file names.
Why use it?
It prevents skills from being rejected or becoming difficult for coding agents to discover and follow. It also keeps related skills consistent as the collection grows.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/uipath/skills/skill-structure
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UiPath/skills

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 434 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 $0.00434
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash 25dfc3f9156f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-structure 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.

.cursor/rules/skill-structure.mdc · 18 lines

What it actually says

Every skill under skills/uipath-<kebab-case>/ must have a SKILL.md with valid YAML frontmatter: name (matching folder name exactly) and description (under 1024 characters — repo cap; Claude Code's hard truncation for description + when_to_use is 1,536 chars).

The description must front-load skill identity and unique file/domain signals (e.g. .cs, .xaml, .flow, servo) within the first ~100 characters. Use compact redirects for commonly confused sibling skills (e.g. For XAML→uipath-rpa). Start with [PREVIEW] for unstable skills. Do NOT use verbose TRIGGER when: / DO NOT TRIGGER when: clauses or nest fields under metadata: — both cause Claude Code to drop the field.

SKILL.md body order: Title → When to Use → Critical Rules (numbered) → Workflow/Quick Start → Reference Navigation → Anti-patterns. Reference files use kebab-case; guides end with -guide.md; templates end with -template.md or -template.<ext>. Skills must be self-contained — no cross-skill references.

Full reference: .claude/rules/skill-structure.md.

Before changing flavor markers, sparse overrides, generic discovery, package construction, publishing, or flavor CI, read .claude/skills/manage-skill-flavors/SKILL.md completely and follow its reference-routing instructions.

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 · 18 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 25dfc3f9156f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-structure is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository UiPath/skills (150 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 434 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 2026-08-30.