Skills
Standardized runtime capabilities installed into a Spinup Agent environment, following the open Agent Skills format.
A skill is a standardized runtime capability you install into a Spinup Agent environment. You declare which skills the agent should have, and Spinup makes sure they are present where the harness can find them.
Skills follow the open Agent Skills format. Each skill is a directory with a SKILL.md file plus optional scripts and resources. Compatible harnesses discover skills from agreed on-disk locations, so the same skill works across harnesses without per-harness wiring.
What you control
You add a skill by name and source. Spinup keeps the skill list with the agent and reconciles it inside the environment when needed.
GitHub is the available skill source type today. A skill reference looks like a repository plus a skill name inside it.
What Spinup does
When the agent is ready or about to run, Spinup installs the skills into the environment under the on-disk locations the open Agent Skills format expects. Once a skill is in the right place, the harness picks it up through its normal skill discovery.
Skills are harness-agnostic. Switching the active harness on an agent does not require reauthoring or reinstalling the skill.
Where to go next
- Install and manage skills from the terminal in Agent Capabilities.
- See how skills fit into the broader capability model in Capabilities.