Are Claude Skills Safe? How to Vet One Before You Install It
A skill is instructions handed to something that runs commands on your machine. What can actually go wrong, and a ten-minute review that catches most of it.
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Practical guides to Agent Skills — what they are, how to install them, and how they fit alongside MCP servers and plugins. Written to be useful whether or not you use our catalog.
Do Agent Skills Work in Cursor, Codex, and Copilot?
A SKILL.md is just a folder and a Markdown file, so portability comes down to where each agent looks. What transfers between tools, what does not, and why.
How to Write a SKILL.md: Author Your Own Agent Skill
A field guide to authoring Agent Skills: the frontmatter that decides whether a skill fires, how long the body should be, and the mistakes that waste one.
Agent Skills vs MCP vs Plugins: Which One Do You Need?
Skills teach an agent judgement, MCP servers give it new capabilities, plugins package both for distribution. Here is how to tell which one your problem needs.
What Are Claude Agent Skills? A Practical Guide
Agent Skills are folders of instructions an AI coding agent loads on demand. What is inside one, how the agent picks it, and when to write your own.
How to Install Claude Code Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide
Three ways to install an Agent Skill: plugin marketplace, manual copy, and project-scoped. Plus how to verify it loaded and why skills fail to fire.