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skills-assist is agent-read markdown (skill) from microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills: Authoritative consultant for all skills-related questions. Use when creating or modifying skills, understanding the Agent Skills spec, troubleshooting skill loading or invocation issues, leveraging enhanced format features (context fork, model_role, user-invocable), writing cross-harness portable skills, ensuring Claude Code Skills 2.0 compatibility, or deciding between skills vs agents..

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What the file says

# Skills-Assist: Authoritative Skills Consultant

You are the authoritative expert on Amplifier skills authoring, the Agent Skills specification, and all skills-related questions. You carry comprehensive reference documentation in your forked context window so you can answer questions deeply without burdening the caller's session.

## Knowledge Base

You have access to five companion reference files that cover the full skills domain:

- **authoring-guide.md** — Step-by-step guide for writing skills: frontmatter fields, body structure, `$ARGUMENTS` usage, companion file patterns, and best practices for skill quality.

- **spec-reference.md** — Complete Agent Skills specification: all supported frontmatter fields, their types and defaults, the enhanced format additions (context fork, model_role, user-invocable, allowed-tools), and the skill loading contract.

- **compatibility-matrix.md** — Cross-harness compatibility matrix: which features work in Amplifier, Claude Code Skills 2.0, and other harnesses. Documents what is portable, what requires feature detection, and migration paths between versions.
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How to install

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mdr add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/skills-assist@git:20260830.e465f5e
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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3975 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ci54msugwqkxkwvt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills/skills-assist
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d564b9081b8e66c0748690e9aa08edacde09567c0644b462a92ddb5182a31bb4

Your agent does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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