Place a skill where the agent CLI discovers it - #198
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A skill was written as a single file named for it, holding the body. Claude Code and Codex discover a skill as a directory holding a SKILL.md and pass over a plain file without complaint, so no agent has ever read one. Each skill is now its own directory, with front matter carrying the name and the description the CLI matches on before it opens the body. The description was never read off the wire at all: in a layout with no front matter there was nowhere for it to go. agn has no skills feature and its skills reach the model in the system prompt, so the directory it was writing served nothing and is gone. A skill that cannot be placed is skipped with a reason rather than keeping the agent from starting.
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A skill was written as a single file named for it, holding the body. Claude Code and Codex discover a skill as a directory holding a
SKILL.md— "path is a file; skills entries must be directories containing SKILL.md" is Claude Code's own wording for what it does with the other shape — so no agent has ever read one.Each skill is now its own directory holding a
SKILL.md, with front matter carrying the name and the description. The description was never read off the wire at all; with no front matter there was nowhere to put it.Locations follow the CLI:
~/.claude/skillsfor Claude Code,~/.agents/skillsfor Codex —$CODEX_HOME/skillsstill works there but upstream marks it deprecated.agnhas no skills feature and takes its skills through the system prompt, so the directory it was writing served nothing and is gone.A skill that cannot be placed is skipped with a reason on stderr rather than keeping the agent from starting.
Spec: agynd — Skills.