Imported from nirholas/PAI (
skills/SKILL.md). Install upstream withnpx skills add nirholas/PAI --skill skills. Copyright stays with the author.
PAI Skills — Root Index
This file is the machine-readable index of every skill shipped in PAI.
Agents scan /skills/*/SKILL.md at session start and use this file as
the canonical list of what is available.
For the human-facing overview of the skill convention, see ../SKILLS.md. For how agents consume skills, see ../AGENTS.md. For the underlying primitives skills are built from, see ../TOOLS.md.
Catalog
| Name | Description | Status | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
example-tool |
Template skill demonstrating the PAI SKILL.md format. |
stable | example-tool/SKILL.md |
How skills are discovered by agents
At session start, an agent should:
- Enumerate every
SKILL.mdunder/skills/(excluding this root index itself). - Parse the YAML frontmatter of each file.
- Build an in-memory registry keyed by
name, withtriggersused to match user intent. - When a user request matches one or more triggers, the agent loads
the full
SKILL.mdbody and follows its instructions.
Agents MUST NOT invoke a skill whose SKILL.md failed to parse or
whose frontmatter is incomplete. Report the problem to the user
instead.