AI agent skills, explained

Agents without skills are demos. Skills are the reusable, replayable units of work that make agents useful across your real day-to-day tools.

Try SkillForge free What is SKILL.md?

Agents ≠ skills

An agent is a runtime — a loop that reasons and acts. A skill is a specific capability it can invoke: "reconcile QuickBooks invoices", "triage GitHub issues", "onboard a new hire". Without skills, agents drift. With skills, they compound.

Where do skills come from?

Traditionally, engineers write them. But the fastest path is to record what you already do — SkillForge watches your screen recording and generates a portable SKILL.md that any agent runtime can replay.

Compatible runtimes

Claude Skills (Anthropic)
autogen (Microsoft)
crewAI
browser-use
langchain agents
OpenAI Assistants API

Where SkillForge fits

Record your workflow → SkillForge extracts a SKILL.md → drop it into any agent → the agent replays it. Free for anyone getting started.

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