Proposal: include a standard folder where agent skills should be

Author: douglascamataCreated Dec 19, 2025Updated Sep 10, 2026

I highly appreciate that skills is becoming a standard that we can use across many different agent harnesses.

To make it even smoother, I believe that agreeing on a standard name for the agent skills folder would benefit everyone. This would allow different harnesses to have a default folder to find skills without requiring each project to put them in a different folder and create symlinks that match the specific folder of each harness.

Example: Claude is looking at .claude/skills/ and Github Copilot is looking at .github/skills/.

Edit: now we have Codex also looking at its own folder .codex/skills/

My suggestion for the name would be .agents/skills/, but I don't really care much about the name as long as it's agreed upon and standardized. It could even be just .skills/.

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