Agent Skill Fundamentals in Agent Skills

Lessons in this section

1. Agent Skills Overview

   What agent skills are and why developers use them: repeated prompts and lost context, the skill folder and SKILL.md, prompt vs skill, benefits and limits, and the coding tools that support skills.

2. Skill Anatomy

   The parts of a skill: the folder layout, the SKILL.md file, YAML front matter fields, the body sections that make a skill dependable, the optional references, scripts, templates and examples folders, and building your first hello-skill.