What Are Agent Skills?
Agent Skills are folders containing aSKILL.md file with instructions that AI agents load on demand. They encode how to do something — procedural knowledge that makes agents more effective at specific tasks.
Kasava provides 6 auto-trigger skills that teach AI agents how to use product intelligence when coding:
In Claude Code specifically, the plugin bundles 8 additional user-invoked slash commands (
/kasava:install, :sync, :plan, :ask, :ask-ai, :staleness, :decision, :status) and 4 subagents on top of these auto-trigger skills.
How Skills Work
- Discovery: At startup, the agent reads each skill’s name and description (~100 tokens each)
- Activation: When your request matches a skill’s description, the agent loads the full instructions
- Execution: The agent follows the instructions, optionally loading reference files for details
- With MCP connected: The agent executes actual tool calls (symbol search, graph queries, etc.)
- Without MCP: The agent follows the procedural guidance using local tools (grep, LSP, etc.)
Installation by Platform
Claude Code
Install the Kasava plugin which includes skills automatically:Cursor
Copy skills into your project:GitHub Copilot / VS Code
Copy skills into your workspace:OpenAI Codex
Gemini CLI
Other Tools
Check agentskills.io for platform-specific instructions. The skills directory structure is universal — copy it to wherever your tool looks for skills.Combining Skills with MCP
For the best experience, use both:- Skills teach the agent how to think about using Kasava (methodology, workflows, decision frameworks)
- MCP gives the agent access to tools that execute the methodology (actual API calls)