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, public GitHub repositories hold millions of skill files. Skills are unlike the artifacts that software engineering researchers usually mine: they are written mainly in natural language, a model selects them probabilistically at run time, and no compiler or type checker verifies the selection. Skills also have no central registry or package manager; developers reu...
| Authors | Giuseppe Destefanis, Daniel Graziotin, Matteo Vaccargiu et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.SE |
| Published | 11 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 11 September 2026 |
Models and datasets referencing this paper
- mvaccargiu/gitskillsDataset
- FahdSeddik/skill-constellationsDataset
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