{
  "id": 18659,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10906v1",
  "title": "GitSkills: A Dataset of Agent Skills on GitHub",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Giuseppe Destefanis, Daniel Graziotin, Matteo Vaccargiu, Marco Ortu",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "anthropic",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T13:28:27.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "source_slug": "x-arxiv-cs-ai",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18659",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10906v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}