meta-skill

meta-skill is an Agent Skill for designing better Agent Skills. It helps an agent decide whether a skill should exist, compare nearby alternatives, write a concise design brief, and give each skill a distinctive identity before implementation.

Install into any local skills directory:

npx skill-meta-skill install --dest ~/.agent/skills

For any tool with a different skills directory, pass that parent directory explicitly:

npx skill-meta-skill install --dest /path/to/agent/skills

You can also set AGENT_SKILLS_DIR:

AGENT_SKILLS_DIR=~/.agent/skills npx skill-meta-skill install

The installer copies only the skill payload: SKILL.md, references/, agents/, and LICENSE.txt.

This npm package keeps the Agent Skill payload at the package root so it can also be installed from GitHub or copied manually. The npm CLI is a thin convenience wrapper for environments that prefer package-manager distribution.

• SKILL.md: trigger metadata and core workflow
• references/design-brief.md: compact design brief template
• references/quality-checklist.md: delivery checklist
• agents/openai.yaml: optional host UI metadata for compatible environments

Apache-2.0