Skills Ecosystem

skills.sh indexes public skill repositories used by multiple coding-agent clients. It is a discovery service, not a Git endpoint: URLs such as https://skills.sh/{name} cannot be cloned into .polpo/skills/.

Two installation targets

Target	Purpose	Installation
Coding agent	Teaches a developer assistant how to work	`npx skills@latest add owner/repository`
Polpo runtime agent	Adds instructions to a deployed Polpo agent	Project `.polpo/skills/`, `POST /v1/skills/add`, or `client.installSkills()`

For the official coding-agent pack, use Coding Agents. For a Polpo runtime agent, install from the source repository and then assign the discovered skill name:

await client.installSkills("https://github.com/owner/repository");
await client.assignSkill("api-security", "backend-dev");

The equivalent local agent configuration uses the required wrapper shape:

[
  {
    "agent": {
      "name": "backend-dev",
      "skills": ["api-security"]
    },
    "teamName": "engineering"
  }
]

Publish a compatible skill

Put each skill in its own directory and commit the entire bundle:

skills/
  api-security/
    SKILL.md
    references/
    scripts/

---
name: api-security
description: Review HTTP APIs for common security failures
allowed-tools:
  - read
  - grep
---

Describe the workflow, constraints, and expected output here.

Polpo reads name, description, and allowed-tools. Runtime tags and category are maintained in the project’s .polpo/skills-index.json, not in SKILL.md. See Agent skills for assignment and API details.

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Skills Ecosystem

Two installation targets

Publish a compatible skill

​Two installation targets

​Publish a compatible skill

Two installation targets

Publish a compatible skill