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Agent Skills is a curated skill registry and npm-based CLI for extending AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Antigravity with packaged instructions, templates, and reference files. The CLI fetches a catalog, lets users search and select skills, caches downloads locally, and installs them to selected agents by copying or symlinking them at global or project scope; it also supports updating, removing, auditing, and managing cached skills. The repository describes the catalog as an open-source, human-curated library with CI static analysis, content hashing, lockfiles, path isolation, symlink guards, sanitization, audit logging, and Snyk Agent Scan checks. It also includes an MCP server that exposes progressive-disclosure tools for listing, searching, reading, and fetching skill files. The CLI source is MIT-licensed; maintainer-authored skills are generally CC BY 4.0, while third-party skills retain their own licenses.

Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic, positioned as 'The AI for Problem Solvers'. It is a general-purpose AI system used for tasks such as generating code prompts, refining requirements, creating advertising strategy and copy, and processing creative content like storyboarding and video prompts.

Agent Skills is an open-source collection of engineering workflows for AI coding agents, developed by Addy Osmani. It packages senior-engineering practices into skills covering the development lifecycle: defining specifications, planning, incremental implementation, testing and debugging, constraints, code review, web-performance auditing, code simplification, and shipping. Slash commands such as /spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review, and /ship activate the corresponding workflows, while skills can also activate automatically based on the work being performed. The /build workflow can generate a plan and implement its tasks in an approved pass, while retaining test-driven verification, individual commits, and pauses for failures or risky steps. It can be installed with the skills CLI or integrated into supported coding agents including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, and Cline.

CowAgent is an open-source AI assistant and agent harness developed by LinkAI. It plans complex tasks step by step, runs tools and skills, controls computers and external services, maintains long-term memory and a personal knowledge base, and supports multi-agent teams with separate roles, models, skills, knowledge, and workspaces. Its architecture routes messages from web and messaging channels through an agent core that reasons over available models, tools, skills, memory, and knowledge before returning a response. Memory uses a three-tier structure of conversation context, daily memory, and long-term MEMORY.md, with a nightly Deep Dream process that distills memories; the knowledge base is an automatically curated Markdown wiki with cross-references and a browsable knowledge graph. Built-in tools include file and terminal operations, web fetching and search, scheduling, memory retrieval, vision, and browser automation, while MCP servers can be added through configuration. Skills can be installed from the Skill Hub, GitHub, ClawHub, or URLs, or authored through conversation. CowAgent supports multiple LLM providers and routes chat, vision, image generation, speech, and embedding workloads separately. It can run locally, in Docker, on a server, or through its macOS and Windows desktop client, with a web console for configuration and a command-line interface for service and skill management. The project is licensed under the MIT License and was formerly named chatgpt-on-wechat.

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal, IDEs, and GitHub. It uses natural-language commands to understand a codebase, create and read files, execute commands, run tests, explain code, manage Git workflows, and handle routine development tasks. It can also load persistent project context, run custom slash commands, use plugins with custom commands and agents, and operate with configurable autonomy while leaving actions such as final pull-request merging to a human. The official repository documents installation for macOS, Linux, and Windows, and identifies npm installation as deprecated.