Example
Example reference skill demonstrating the Agent Skills specification. Use this skill as a template for new skills or when testing the loader, registry, and dispatcher code paths. Demonstrates frontmatter fields, metadata extensions (lane, triggers), and references directory layout.From its SKILL.md
npx -y skills add rmednitzer/agents --skill exampleAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
One thing to look at
- 1 stars1 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
What its file declares
Copied from the file, not written here
The file declares its own license as Apache-2.0. That is the author’s claim about this one file, and it is not the same thing as the license GitHub reports for the repository, which is listed with the other numbers below.
SKILL.md
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Example skill
This is the body of the example skill. It demonstrates the SKILL.md format defined by the Agent Skills open standard at agentskills.io.
When to use
Use this skill as a template for new skills in the agents repository. It exercises the loader, registry, and dispatcher code paths in tests and serves as a documented baseline for skill authors.
Body structure
Skills are encouraged to keep the SKILL.md body under 500 lines and move detailed technical reference to files in references/. This skill is intentionally short.
Resources
A real skill might include:
- references/REFERENCE.md for detailed technical material.
- scripts/extract.py for executable helpers.
- assets/template.md for output templates.
This example ships none of those; the directories are absent.
What ships with it
Read from the repository
Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.