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Junie Skills

Q: Does Junie support skills?

Yes. Junie reads SKILL.md folders from .junie/skills/, .agents/skills/, ~/.junie/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/ in JetBrains IDEs and the Junie CLI.

Q: Junie skills vs guidelines: what is the difference?

Project rules now go in AGENTS.md; the older .junie/guidelines.md still works. A skill is a packaged job that loads only when the task needs it.

Agent Skills for Junie, JetBrains’ coding agent in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm and the Junie CLI. Add a SKILL.md folder to .junie/skills/ and Junie loads it when a task matches.

Browse Skills for Junie How to install

Junie

src/index.htmlstyles.css.junie/skills/

Build an admin dashboard page for these metrics

● Using skillbs-data-visualization-kpi-linesJunie is using the skill · dashboard.html ready

Where the Skill lives

~/.junie/skills/
bs-data-visualization-kpi-lines/
SKILL.md
assets/
scripts/

Works the same in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand and other JetBrains IDEs.

Popular Junie skills

Every Skill below installs into Junie with the default command.

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Orbit Startup Landing

Quick answer

Does Junie support Agent Skills?

Yes. Junie reads Agent Skills from .junie/skills/ or .agents/skills/ in a project and ~/.junie/skills/ or ~/.agents/skills/ globally, in JetBrains IDEs and the Junie CLI. AGENTS.md keeps holding project rules; Skills add one job each and load only when needed.

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

Junie skills in JetBrains IDEs

Bring design output into the IDE you already use.

Quartz SaaS Landing

Dashboards

Admin and KPI pages with charts that look right.

Slate Admin ConsoleFree

Landing pages

Marketing pages for the product you are building.

Sky Glass DeckFree

Demo decks

Slides for sprint reviews and demos.

How to install skills in Junie

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

Copy the install prompt

Recommended

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

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

Skillry CLI

Also works

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

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

Junie skills vs AGENTS.md

They do different jobs, and most people use both.

AGENTS.mdA Skill (SKILL.md)

What it holdsAGENTS.md: Project rules in AGENTS.md (legacy .junie/guidelines.md)One repeatable job: a deck, a site, a video

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

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

ShareableAGENTS.md: Tied to one project or ~/.junie/AGENTS.mdWorks in any project and in 30 other agents

Junie skills FAQ

Does Junie support skills?

Yes. Junie reads SKILL.md folders from .junie/skills/, .agents/skills/, ~/.junie/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/ in JetBrains IDEs and the Junie CLI.

Junie skills vs guidelines: what is the difference?

Project rules now go in AGENTS.md; the older .junie/guidelines.md still works. A skill is a packaged job that loads only when the task needs it.

Do skills work in every JetBrains IDE?

Yes. Junie runs in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, PhpStorm, RubyMine, RustRover, CLion and Rider, and reads the same skill folders in each.