Skills Overview

A skill is a folder of AI instruction files. When installed, these files sit in .kenji/skills/ and are read by AI tools as context for that project.

Skill structure

Most skills contain:

• SKILL.md — the primary instruction file
• Additional Markdown files for extended context

Some skills include a kenji.json file. This is written and managed by Kenji itself — it stores metadata like the install source, install type, and timestamp. You do not need to create or edit this file manually.

Installing skills

Skills can be installed from the Kenji registry, GitHub repos, GitHub folder URLs, GitHub blob URLs, or raw file URLs. See Install Sources for the full syntax for each.