{"meta":{"title":"About agent skills","intro":"Skills allow Copilot to perform specialized tasks.","product":"GitHub Copilot","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot","title":"GitHub Copilot"},{"href":"/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/concepts","title":"Concepts"},{"href":"/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/concepts/agents","title":"Agents"},{"href":"/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/concepts/agents/about-agent-skills","title":"Agent skills"}],"documentType":"article"},"body":"# About agent skills\n\nSkills allow Copilot to perform specialized tasks.\n\n> \\[!NOTE]\n> Agent skills work with Copilot cloud agent, the GitHub Copilot CLI, and agent mode in Visual Studio Code.\n\n## About agent skills\n\nAgent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Copilot can load when relevant to improve its performance in specialized tasks. The Agent Skills specification is an [open standard](https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills), used by a range of different AI systems.\n\nYou can create your own skills to teach Copilot to perform tasks in a specific, repeatable way—or use skills shared online, for example in the [`anthropics/skills`](https://github.com/anthropics/skills) repository or GitHub's community-created [`github/awesome-copilot`](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot) collection.\n\nYou can also use `gh skill` in GitHub CLI to discover and install skills from GitHub repositories. For more information, see [Adding agent skills for GitHub Copilot](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/cloud-agent/add-skills#managing-skills-with-github-cli).\n\nCopilot supports:\n\n* Project skills, stored in your repository (`.github/skills`, `.claude/skills`, or `.agents/skills`)\n* Personal skills, stored in your home directory and shared across projects (`~/.copilot/skills` or `~/.agents/skills`)\n\nSupport for organization-level and enterprise-level skills is coming soon.\n\n## Next steps\n\nTo create or add agent skills, see:\n\n* [Adding agent skills for GitHub Copilot](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/cloud-agent/add-skills)\n* [Adding agent skills for GitHub Copilot CLI](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/customize-copilot/add-skills)\n* [Copilot customization cheat sheet](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/reference/customization-cheat-sheet)"}