Documentation

What are agent skills?

Agent skills are modular packages that extend AI coding assistants with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Each skill follows the open SKILL.md standard — a markdown file that teaches an AI agent how to handle a specific domain.

When you install a skill, your agent gains deep expertise in that area — marketing strategy, conversion optimization, SEO auditing, or whatever the skill covers. No API keys, no configuration, just install and use.

How skills work

Your AI assistant reads the skill's description (in the YAML frontmatter) to decide when to activate it. When a task matches, the agent loads the full SKILL.md body as its instruction set — frameworks, checklists, decision trees, and step-by-step workflows.

Skills work with any agent that supports the SKILL.md standard: OpenClaw, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and others.

Skill anatomy

skill-name/
SKILL.md
references/
deep-guide.md
templates.md
scripts/
audit.py
  • SKILL.md — the core instruction file. Frontmatter defines triggers, body defines behavior.
  • references/ — deep documentation loaded on-demand. Keeps the main file lean.
  • scripts/ — deterministic executable code. Reads credentials from env vars only.

Installation

Install all skills at once or pick individual ones:

$ npx skills-ws
$ npx skills-ws --skill seo-geo

Security model

  • Every skill is built in-house by Commit Media — no third-party code
  • All skills scanned with VirusTotal — each skill page links to its scan report
  • No external runtime dependencies
  • Scripts read credentials from environment variables only — no hardcoded secrets
  • No eval(), exec(), or child_process patterns in any script
  • Source code available on GitHub