Skills

skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the usual skill layout. Skills are not compiled into the instruction file; they are installed as they are where the harnesses look for skills. How they are installed is not decided yet (see the opening of this design); the overlay’s apply step under Compilation is the current plan. A skill says how to do something; what must be done stays in a rule, and the skill cites the rule ID. The instruction-only check counts everything under skills/ as instruction files, since a skill directs the agents that read it.