Using Agent Skills

Agent Skills are folders of instructions and resources that agents can use. This guide shows how to upload a skill and build an agent that reads it.

Step 1: Get a Skill

Download from Anthropic Skills Repository:

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git
cd skills/skills/internal-comms
zip -r internal-comms.zip .

Step 2: Upload the Skill

import os
from acontext import AcontextClient, FileUpload

client = AcontextClient(api_key=os.getenv("ACONTEXT_API_KEY"))

with open("internal-comms.zip", "rb") as f:
    skill = client.skills.create(
        file=FileUpload(filename="internal-comms.zip", content=f.read())
    )
print(f"Skill ID: {skill.id}")

import { AcontextClient, FileUpload } from '@acontext/acontext';
import * as fs from 'fs';

const client = new AcontextClient({
    apiKey: process.env.ACONTEXT_API_KEY,
});

const fileContent = fs.readFileSync("internal-comms.zip");
const skill = await client.skills.create({
    file: new FileUpload({ filename: "internal-comms.zip", content: fileContent }),
});
console.log(`Skill ID: ${skill.id}`);