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title About agent skills
shortTitle Agent skills
intro Skills allow {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} to perform specialized tasks.
product {% data reusables.gated-features.copilot-cloud-agent %}<br><br>{% data reusables.gated-features.copilot-cli %}<br><a href="https://github.com/features/copilot/plans?ref_product=copilot&ref_type=purchase&ref_style=button" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary mt-3 mr-3 no-underline"><span>Sign up for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %}</span> {% octicon "link-external" height:16 %}</a>
versions
feature
copilot
category
Learn about Copilot
Learn about Copilot CLI
contentType concepts

Note

Agent skills work with {% data variables.copilot.copilot_cloud_agent %}, {% data variables.copilot.copilot_code-review_short %}, the {% data variables.copilot.copilot_cli %}, the {% data variables.copilot.github_copilot_app %}, and agent mode in {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode %}.

About agent skills

Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} can load when relevant to improve its performance in specialized tasks. The Agent Skills specification is an open standard, used by a range of different AI systems.

You can create your own skills to teach {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} to perform tasks in a specific, repeatable way—or use skills shared online, for example in the anthropics/skills repository or {% data variables.product.company_short %}'s community-created github/awesome-copilot collection.

You can also use gh skill in {% data variables.product.prodname_cli %} to discover and install skills from {% data variables.product.github %} repositories. For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} supports:

  • Project skills, stored in your repository (.github/skills, .claude/skills, or .agents/skills)
  • Personal skills, stored in your home directory and shared across projects (~/.copilot/skills or ~/.agents/skills)

Support for organization-level and enterprise-level skills is coming soon.

Next steps

To create or add agent skills, see: