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Goose Skills

Q: Does Goose support Agent Skills?

Yes. Goose reads SKILL.md folders from ~/.agents/skills/ and .agents/skills/, still reads .goose/skills/ and .claude/skills/, and loads a skill when your request matches.

Q: Where does Goose read project context?

Goose reads AGENTS.md first, then .goosehints, in the project. A global .goosehints lives in ~/.config/goose/.

Agent Skills for Goose, the open-source agent created by Block and now run under the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation. Install a Skill into ~/.agents/skills/ and Goose loads it next to your recipes and extensions.

Browse Skills for Goose How to install

goose session — ~/projects/launch

$ goose session

> Read https://skillry.dev/skills/bs-claude-style-illustration/install.md and follow the instructions to install the skill.

✓ Installed to ~/.agents/skills/bs-claude-style-illustration/

> Draw a cover illustration for my blog post

● Loading skill bs-claude-style-illustration

● Using the skill · cover.png saved

Where the Skill lives

~/.agents/skills/
bs-claude-style-illustration/
SKILL.md
assets/
scripts/

Goose still reads older .goose/skills/ and .claude/skills/ folders.

Popular Goose skills

Every Skill below installs into Goose with the default command.

Browse all Skills for Goose

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Orbit Startup Landing

Quick answer

Goose skills vs recipes

Goose recipes package a whole task setup, with instructions, extensions and parameters, so you can share and rerun it. Skills are smaller: a SKILL.md folder that teaches one job and loads only when your request matches. Goose reads Skills from ~/.agents/skills/ and .agents/skills/, and still reads older .goose/skills/ folders.

Global folder: ~/.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 Goose
Official docs: goose-docs.ai

Goose skills or recipes?

Recipes are the most searched way to extend Goose. Here is where Skills fit.

Sky Glass DeckFree

Recipe

A shareable task: prompt, extensions and settings in one file.

Quartz SaaS Landing

Skill

A reusable capability any session can load on demand.

Manus 2.0 Style Launch Video

Both

Share the task setup as a recipe and keep the know-how in Skills.

How to install skills in Goose

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

Copy the install prompt

Recommended

Paste one sentence into Goose. 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 Goose 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 ~/.agents/skills/.
3Restart Goose so it picks up the new Skill.

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

Skillry CLI

Also works

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

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

Goose skills vs recipes and .goosehints

They do different jobs, and most people use both.

Recipes and .goosehintsA Skill (SKILL.md)

What it holdsRecipes and .goosehints: Recipes: shareable task setups. AGENTS.md and .goosehints: project contextOne repeatable job: a deck, a site, a video

When it loadsRecipes and .goosehints: When you run a recipe, or every session for hintsOnly when your request matches

Context costRecipes and .goosehints: Always in the promptA one-line description until used

ShareableRecipes and .goosehints: Tied to one project or recipe fileWorks in any project and in 30 other agents

Goose skills FAQ

Does Goose support Agent Skills?

Yes. Goose reads SKILL.md folders from ~/.agents/skills/ and .agents/skills/, still reads .goose/skills/ and .claude/skills/, and loads a skill when your request matches.