Foundations

Skills.

The SKILL.md files agents pull by task, the specialist context layered on top of the always-loaded standard.

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How skills are structured and how agents load them.

Six skills ship with the kit, in the open SKILL.md format that Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Copilot all read. Agents scan a fixed set of directories at your project root, so install them there once with `node studio/system/agents/install-skills.mjs`, which copies each skill into .agents/skills, .claude/skills, and .cursor/skills. A skill loads only its description at startup and pulls the full instructions when a task matches, so all six cost almost nothing until one is needed.