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Sharing Skills

Lays out, packages, and hands off a skill folder so others can install it correctly

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Repository
spinabot/brigade
Stars
11,367
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

This skill teaches the agent how a skill folder should be structured: a SKILL.md file with a short header describing the skill, plus optional supporting files. It explains where skills live, how to name them, and how to bundle the folder into a tar.gz archive for someone else to unpack. It also gives a checklist to confirm the folder is correct before sharing.

Great for

  • Developers who write their own agent skills and want to share them with teammates or the community
  • Anyone packaging a skill folder into an archive for hand-off
  • Teams standardising how their internal skills are laid out and versioned

Skip it if

  • People who only want to use existing skills and never create or share them; this skill adds little for them
  • Anyone expecting it to write the skill's actual content; the companion skill-creator covers authoring, and this one covers layout and packaging
  • Sharing skills that contain secrets: the archive bundles the whole folder, so credentials or private files in it would travel with it

Try asking

  • “Package my skills/invoice-checker folder into a tar.gz I can send to a colleague”
  • “Check that my SKILL.md frontmatter name matches its folder name before I share it”
  • “Explain the SKILL.md format and which eligibility keys I need for a skill that requires an API token”
  • “Set up a CHANGELOG for my skill so recipients can tell versions apart”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Sharing SkillsInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    share-skills.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip share-skills.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip share-skills.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Run the pre-share checklist in the file before every hand-off, especially the name-equals-folder-name rule.
  • Review the whole folder for secrets or private data before archiving, since everything inside gets bundled.
  • Omit eligibility keys like requires-env unless they reflect a real requirement, so recipients are not blocked for no reason.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from spinabot/brigade under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.