# name: hello-skill description: Greets the user and explains what an Agent Skill is. Use when the user asks for a hello-world skill, wants to test that skills are loading, or asks how a skill is structured. license: MIT

# Hello skill

Use this skill to confirm that skills are discovered and loaded by the agent.

# Instructions

1. Greet the user in one short sentence and say that the hello-skill skill is active.
2. If the user asked how skills work, explain in at most five sentences:
   • a skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file;
   • the YAML frontmatter holds a name and a description that tell the agent when to use it;
   • the Markdown body holds the instructions the agent follows;
   • optional scripts/, references/ and assets/ directories hold supporting files.
3. Do not read files, run commands or access the network. This skill needs no tools.