Help & Documentation

Learn how to get the most out of AI SkillsBank.

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Getting Started

To begin using AI SkillsBank, create an account with your email address. You'll receive a verification email — click the link to activate your account, then log in.

Once logged in, you can browse public skills from the community, create your own, and organize them with categories and tags.

Creating & Editing Skills

There are two ways to create a skill:

Each skill has:

To edit a skill, open it and click Edit. Each edit automatically saves a snapshot of the previous version so you can always go back.

✨ AI Skill Creator

The AI Skill Creator generates a complete, structured skill from a plain-English description. Click ✨ AI Create in the dashboard header to open it.

How it works

  1. Describe what you want your AI agent to do in the text box (up to 2,000 characters)
  2. Select a model — Haiku 4.5 (fast) or Sonnet 4.6 (richer output, premium only)
  3. Click Generate Skill
  4. Review the generated title, category, content, tags, and any supporting files
  5. Click Use This Skill to load it into the skill form for final review before saving, or Regenerate to try again

What gets generated

Scope rules

The AI creates one skill for one task. If your description covers multiple platforms or formats, it picks the primary one and notes that you can use the Skill Optimizer to convert for other targets later.

Free vs. Premium limits

Feature Free Premium
Model Claude Haiku 4.5 Haiku 4.5 or Sonnet 4.6
Output token budget 4,096 tokens 16,000 tokens
Supporting file size 300–500 tokens each 500–2,000 tokens each

🔄 Skill Optimizer

The Skill Optimizer converts an existing skill to a specific agent platform or harness format. It's useful when you want to take a skill you've built in AI SkillsBank and deploy it somewhere else without rewriting it from scratch.

Premium feature. Open any skill, click 🔄 Optimize, choose a target format, and click Optimize.

Supported target formats

Output

The optimizer returns the converted content plus brief notes explaining the key adaptations. Use the Copy button to copy the optimized text to your clipboard.

Template Variables

Use {{variable_name}} placeholders anywhere in your skill content. When you use the skill, you'll be prompted to fill in each variable before copying the final output.

This is useful for reusable instructions where only certain details change — for example, {{project_name}}, {{language}}, or {{tone}}.

Supporting Files

You can attach supporting files (reference docs, example scripts, config files) to any skill. These files are bundled with the skill and included when someone forks it, so the full context travels with the instruction.

Version History

Every time you edit a skill, the previous version is saved automatically. You can:

✓ Evals (Behavior Testing)

Evals turn your skills into tested behaviors. Attach test cases to any skill you own, run them on demand, and see exactly which assertions pass or fail — before an edit slips into production.

Opening the evals panel

Open any skill you own from your dashboard, then click the ✓ Evals button at the bottom of the detail view (next to History). The panel shows a header badge like "3/4 passing", a list of your evals, and an Add eval button. The button is owner-only — collaborators on team-shared skills cannot create evals.

Anatomy of an eval

Each eval has three parts:

Assertion types

Type Passes when…
containsOutput contains the given text (toggle "ignore case" if needed).
not_containsOutput does not contain the given text.
matchesOutput matches the supplied regex pattern.
min_lengthOutput is at least N characters long.
max_lengthOutput is at most N characters long.
judged_passAn LLM judge (Claude Haiku) decides the output meets your natural-language criterion, e.g. "Response uses a warm but professional tone and addresses the customer by name."

You can mix and match. judged_pass is the most flexible but slowest — capped at 3 per eval to control cost.

Running evals

Editing an eval

Click the (edit) icon on any eval row to open the form pre-filled with that eval's name, input, and assertions. Save your changes and the eval is updated — run history is preserved so you can see how the same test behaved before and after the edit.

Public eval-status badge

Once a public skill has at least one eval with a recorded run, a small badge appears on its public page (e.g. "✓ 12/12 evals passing") right alongside the fork count and review stars. This signals to people considering forking your skill that the behavior is tested.

Limits and cost controls

Best practices

Forking Skills

Found a public skill you'd like to customize? Click Fork to copy it into your own library. Forked skills are independent — you can edit them freely without affecting the original. The fork count on the original skill shows how many users have built on it.

Public, Private & Team Sharing

Toggle visibility at any time from the skill detail view.

Ratings & Reviews

Public skills can be rated and reviewed by other users. Leave a 1–5 star rating and optional written feedback. Each user can submit one review per skill — submitting again updates your existing review. Average ratings are shown on skill cards to help surface the best content.

Security Scanning

Public skills are automatically scanned for security issues before they're shared with the community. AI SkillsBank uses a three-tier scan pipeline to detect risky content, including malicious patterns, prompt injection attempts, and exposed secrets.

Scan results appear on:

Each scanned skill shows:

Statuses

Scan Tiers

You can also manually re-run a scan from the skill detail page.

Important: A passed scan reduces risk, but does not guarantee a skill is safe in every environment. Review public skills before using them with production systems or sensitive data.

Skill Testing Sandbox

Premium users can test their skills before publishing using the ⚡ Test Sandbox button on any skill detail page. There are two modes:

Advisor Review

An AI prompt engineer evaluates your skill and returns structured feedback:

You can optionally include a sample test message to also get feedback on how the agent would respond to a specific input.

Test as Agent

Your skill content becomes the agent's system prompt verbatim. Send any message and see how an AI following those instructions would actually respond — useful for catching edge cases before going public.

Template Variables

If your skill uses {{variable}} placeholders, the sandbox will show fill-in fields for each one. Values you enter are substituted into the skill before the test runs, so you're testing the final rendered output.

Model

Choose between Claude Haiku 4.5 (fast) or Claude Sonnet 4.6 (deeper analysis) for each test run.

Premium & Billing

The free tier allows up to 10 skills. AI SkillsBank Premium is $5/month and includes:

Subscribing

  1. Click the ⚡ Upgrade button in the top navigation bar (visible to free users)
  2. Review what's included and click Subscribe for $5/month
  3. You'll be redirected to a secure Stripe checkout page — enter your card details and confirm
  4. Once payment is complete, Stripe redirects you back to AI SkillsBank and your account is upgraded immediately

Managing Your Subscription

  1. Click the ⚡ Premium button in the top navigation bar
  2. Click Manage Billing & Subscription
  3. You'll be redirected to the Stripe customer portal where you can update your payment method, view invoices, or cancel

Cancellations take effect at the end of your current billing period. Your skills and data are not affected if you cancel.

Teams

Create a team to collaborate with others:

  1. Go to Teams and click Create Team
  2. Share your team's invite code with members
  3. Members join by entering the code in the Join Team dialog

Once in a team, you can share private skills with that team so all members can access them.

MCP Integration

AI SkillsBank supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing MCP-compatible tools like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf to connect directly to the public skills library.

Once connected, your AI tools can:

Available MCP Tools

Access Details

Production endpoint: https://aiskillsbank.com/mcp/

Important: Include the trailing slash (/mcp/, not /mcp).

Portfolio

Every user has a public portfolio page that showcases their public skills. Share your portfolio link to highlight your best AI agent instructions.

Contact & Support

Have a question, found a bug, or want to request a feature? Reach out to us at admin@aiskillsbank.com and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.