GitSkills: A Dataset of Agent Skills on GitHub
An agent skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file with instructions for a language-model agent, optionally accompanied by scripts and reference files. The agent loads the skill when it judges that a task matches the skill description. Anthropic introduced the format in October 2025 as an open specification. Nine months later, we find that skill files in the millions sit in public GitHub repositories. Skills are unlike the artifacts the SE research community usually mines: they are written ma
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Published: 11 August 2026
Source: arXiv cs.AI
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 12 August 2026
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