# Agent Skills

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/agents-skills/  
**Website:** https://apievangelist.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

An index and topic collection covering Agent Skills, the packaged, file-based capability units that AI coding agents load to extend their behavior. Agent Skills bundle instructions, scripts, schemas, and reference material into directories that agents discover, plan against, and execute at runtime, giving organizations a portable way to govern how AI assistants interact with their products and APIs. This collection tracks vendor-published skill repositories (Claude Code skills, Claude Agent SDK skills, Cursor rules, OpenAI Apps SDK skills, and capability packages) shipped by API providers across developer tools, data platforms, SaaS, and infrastructure.

## Kin Score — 9.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-10-17 under rubric 0.24.0. Trend: flat (+0.1 from 9.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 48.2 |
| Contract Quality | 14.7 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 4.9 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Use cases (8)

- **First-Party Product Skills** — SaaS vendors ship official skill repos so AI agents in Claude Code or Cursor can create resources, run reports, and operate their products without bespoke prompt engineering.
- **Internal Developer Platform Skills** — Platform teams package their CI/CD, deployment, and observability workflows as governed skills so every engineering agent uses the same approved automations.
- **API Onboarding and Education** — API providers use skills to walk agents through authentication, sandbox setup, and "hello world" requests, accelerating time-to-first-call for developer-led agents.
- **Governed Capability Distribution** — Compliance-sensitive organizations distribute skills with allow-lists, signing, and audit trails to ensure only approved AI behaviors run against production systems.
- **API Specification to Skill Pipelines** — Teams convert OpenAPI specs into skill bundles (one operation per tool) so agents get typed, governed access to every endpoint without writing custom wrappers.
- **Cross-Runtime Skill Portability** — Vendors maintain mirror skill sets for Claude, Cursor, and OpenAI Apps SDK, giving customers a consistent experience across whichever coding agent they choose.
- **Skill-Driven Customer Support** — Support and DevRel teams publish skills that diagnose common issues, pull logs, and open tickets, letting customer-side agents resolve problems autonomously.
- **Sandbox and Test Environment Skills** — Skill bundles provision throwaway environments, seed test data, and tear down resources so agents can exercise APIs safely during development and CI.

## Tags

Agent Skills, Claude Skills, Capability Packages, AI Agents, Developer Tooling

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/agents-skills/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.