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Gitagent manage-skills

Searches the SkillsMP registry, installs skills locally or globally, creates custom skills with SKILL.md frontmatter, and manages the skill lifecycle. Use when the user wants to find skills, add new capabilities, install a skill, browse available skills, create a custom skill, or manage the skills system.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/open-gitagent/gitagent
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/open-gitagent/gitagent "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/examples/gitagent-helper/skills/manage-skills" ~/.claude/skills/open-gitagent-gitagent-manage-skills && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: examples/gitagent-helper/skills/manage-skills/SKILL.md
source content

Manage Skills

When to Use

When a user wants to find skills, install them, create new ones, or understand the skills system.

Verify Installation

After installing a skill, confirm it's available:

gitagent skills list -d ./my-agent | grep "code-review"

Search Skills

# Search SkillsMP registry
gitagent skills search "code review"

# Search GitHub
gitagent skills search "pdf reader" --provider github

# Limit results
gitagent skills search "testing" --limit 5

Install Skills

# Install from SkillsMP to agent-local skills/
gitagent skills install code-review -d ./my-agent

# Install globally to ~/.agents/skills/
gitagent skills install code-review --global

# Install from GitHub
gitagent skills install owner/repo#skills/my-skill --provider github

List Skills

# Show all discovered skills (local + global)
gitagent skills list -d ./my-agent

# Only agent-local skills
gitagent skills list -d ./my-agent --local

Inspect a Skill

gitagent skills info code-review -d ./my-agent

Shows: name, description, license, allowed tools, metadata, optional directories.

Create a Skill

  1. Create directory: 
    skills/<name>/
  2. Create 
    SKILL.md
    with frontmatter:
---
name: my-skill
description: What this skill does (max 1024 chars)
license: MIT
allowed-tools: Read Edit Grep Glob Bash
metadata:
  author: your-name
  version: "1.0.0"
  category: developer-tools
---

# Instructions

[Detailed instructions for using this skill.
Keep under ~5000 tokens / ~20000 characters.]
  1. Reference it in 
    agent.yaml
    :
skills:
  - my-skill
  1. Validate:
gitagent validate -d ./my-agent

Skill Discovery Paths

Skills are found in this order (first match wins):

PriorityPath
1
<agent>/skills/
2
<agent>/.agents/skills/
3
<agent>/.claude/skills/
4
<agent>/.github/skills/
5
~/.agents/skills/

Optional Directories in Skills

  • scripts/
    — Executable scripts the skill can reference
  • references/
    — Reference documents
  • assets/
    — Images, static files
  • agents/
    — Skill-specific sub-agents