Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session or when you need to discover which skill applies to the current task. This is the meta-skill that governs how all other skills are discovered and invoked.
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name: using-agent-skills
description: Discovers and invokes agent skills. Use when starting a session or when you need to discover which skill applies to the current task. This is the meta-skill that governs how all other skills are discovered and invoked.
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# Using Agent Skills
## Overview
Agent Skills is a collection of engineering workflow skills organized by development phase. Each skill encodes a specific process that senior engineers follow. This meta-skill helps you discover and apply the right skill for your current task.
## Skill Discovery
When a task arrives, identify the development phase and apply the corresponding skill:
```
Task arrives
│
├── Don't know what you want yet? ──────→ interview-me
├── Have a rough concept, need variants? → idea-refine
├── New project/feature/change? ──→ spec-driven-development
├── Have a spec, need tasks? ──────→ planning-and-task-breakdown
├── Implementing code? ────────────→ incremental-implementation
│ ├── UI work? ─────────────────→ frontend-ui-engineering
│ ├── API work? ────────────────→ api-and-interface-design… install to load the full skill