Skills & Routines
Reusable skills, rules, hooks and scheduled routines that teach agents how and when to work.
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Agent Skills (Claude docs)
Reference for SKILL.md-based Skills: progressive disclosure, usage across API, Claude Code and claude.ai, limits and security.platform.claude.comAgent Skills specification
Home of the open Agent Skills standard, now stewarded by the Agentic AI Foundation.agentskills.ioAGENTS.md
Open format for a repo-level instructions file read by coding agents such as Codex.agents.mdanthropics/skills
Anthropic's public repository of example and open-source Agent Skills.github.comClaude Code hooks
Reference for shell commands Claude Code runs automatically on lifecycle events such as tool calls and session start.code.claude.comClaude Code scheduled tasks
Cloud tasks that run a saved Claude Code setup on a schedule, an API call or a GitHub event.code.claude.comCursor Rules
Docs for project, user and team rules that give persistent instructions to Cursor's agent.cursor.comGrok Bot skills and routines
xAI docs: a skill is a reusable set of task instructions; a routine tells a bot when to run it, on a schedule or an event.docs.x.ai