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Amp Skills

Q: Does Amp support skills?

Yes. Amp reads Agent Skills from ~/.config/agents/skills/, ~/.agents/skills/ and .agents/skills/, and also picks up .claude/skills/ folders.

Q: Where is the Amp skills folder?

Project skills go in .agents/skills/. Personal skills go in ~/.config/agents/skills/ or ~/.agents/skills/; if two skills share a name, the first folder in that order wins.

Q: Amp skills vs AGENTS.md: what goes where?

Keep project context and conventions in AGENTS.md. Put a repeatable job with its own templates, like a launch video, in a skill.

Agent Skills for Amp, the coding agent built for the frontier. Install a Skill into ~/.agents/skills/ and Amp loads it when a thread needs it.

Browse Skills for Amp How to install

amp — ~/projects/launch

$ amp

> Read https://skillry.dev/skills/bs-hyperframes-velocity-sting/install.md and follow the instructions to install the skill.

✓ Installed to ~/.config/agents/skills/bs-hyperframes-velocity-sting/

> Make a 15-second launch sting for v2.0

● Loading skill bs-hyperframes-velocity-sting

● Rendering sting.mp4 · 1080p

Where the Skill lives

~/.config/agents/skills/
bs-hyperframes-velocity-sting/
SKILL.md
assets/
scripts/

Amp checks ~/.config/agents/skills/ first, then ~/.agents/skills/.

Popular Amp skills

Every Skill below installs into Amp with the default command.

Browse all Skills for Amp

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Orbit Startup Landing

Quick answer

Does Amp support Agent Skills?

Yes. Amp reads SKILL.md folders from ~/.config/agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/ globally and .agents/skills/ in a repository, and loads a skill when your request matches its description. Skills sit next to AGENTS.md, which keeps carrying your project context.

Global folder: ~/.config/agents/skills/ or ~/.agents/skills/
Project folder: .agents/skills/
File format: SKILL.md (Agent Skills standard)
Loads automatically: Yes, by description
Install with Skillry: Paste the install prompt into Amp
Official docs: ampcode.com/manual

Amp code skills for shipping, not just coding

Amp writes the code. These Skills ship the launch around it.

Manus 2.0 Style Launch Video

Launch stings

Short motion videos for a release, rendered to MP4.

Quartz SaaS Landing

Release pages

A one-page site for the new version.

Sky Glass DeckFree

Demo decks

Slides for the launch call, with PPTX export.

How to install skills in Amp

Amp reads ~/.agents/skills/, so the install prompt puts each Skill there with no extra setup.

Copy the install prompt

Recommended

Paste one sentence into Amp. It reads the install guide and puts the Skill in the right folder itself.

1Open any Skill on Skillry and click Copy install prompt.
2Paste it into Amp and send.
3Approve the sign-in in your browser if asked, then ask for what you need.

Download ZIP

No Node.js needed. Unzip the Skill into the folder yourself.

1Click Download ZIP on any Skill page.
2Unzip it so the folder sits in ~/.config/agents/skills/.
3Restart Amp so it picks up the new Skill.

~/.config/agents/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md

Skillry CLI

Also works

One command downloads the Skill and puts it where Amp looks.

1Open a terminal in any folder.
2Run the command; it installs into ~/.agents/skills/.
3Open Amp and ask for what you need.

Amp skills vs AGENTS.md

They do different jobs, and most people use both.

AGENTS.mdA Skill (SKILL.md)

What it holdsAGENTS.md: Project context and conventionsOne repeatable job: a deck, a site, a video

When it loadsAGENTS.md: Every threadOnly when your request matches

Context costAGENTS.md: Always in the promptA one-line description until used

ShareableAGENTS.md: Tied to one repositoryWorks in any project and in 30 other agents

Amp skills FAQ

Does Amp support skills?

Yes. Amp reads Agent Skills from ~/.config/agents/skills/, ~/.agents/skills/ and .agents/skills/, and also picks up .claude/skills/ folders.

Where is the Amp skills folder?

Project skills go in .agents/skills/. Personal skills go in ~/.config/agents/skills/ or ~/.agents/skills/; if two skills share a name, the first folder in that order wins.