Building Your First AI Agent Skill: From Markdown to APIs (opens in new tab)

AI agent skills are easier to build than they look, and they scale from a simple markdown file to something that runs scripts and calls APIs. Here is a practical walkthrough of the whole spectrum, starting from the simplest useful skill. Start simple: a markdown-only skill The simplest skill is a folder with a single SKILL.md inside. No code. Just frontmatter and instructions. code-reviewer/ SKILL.md The SKILL.md has frontmatter (a name and a description) and a markdown body with the instruct...