gh skill (GitHub CLI)

GitHub CLI command group to search, preview, install, list, update and publish agent skills from GitHub repositories (preview).

Category

Tools

Website

https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_skill

Repository

https://github.com/cli/cli

Docs

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/customizations/agent-skills

Status

beta

Pricing

open-source

License

MIT

Maintainer

GitHub

Added

2026-10-15

Updated

2026-10-23

Last verified

2026-10-23

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• skills
• cli
• installer
• github

Description

Subcommands: install, list, preview, publish, search, update (alias gh skills). Example: gh skill install github/awesome-copilot documentation-writer; gh skill publish --dry-run validates skills for publishing. Marked preview and subject to change.

Related

• Agent Skills Specification: Open format for packaging agent capabilities as folders with a SKILL.md (YAML frontmatter + instructions) plus optional scripts and resources.
• skills CLI (npx skills): Vercel's open agent skills tool: install, update and manage Agent Skills for many coding agents with `npx skills add <source>`.
• Awesome GitHub Copilot: GitHub's community collection of instructions, agents, skills and configurations for GitHub Copilot.

Sources

• https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_skill

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)