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objection-handling
by jbalbu01Handle sales objections with proven frameworks, scripted responses, and practice scenarios. Use this skill whenever a rep asks how to respond to a prospect's pushback, needs help with common objections (price, timing, competition, authority, need), wants to build an objection handling library, or says things like "the prospect said X, what do I say?", "how do I handle the price objection", or "they want to think about it". Also trigger when building training materials around objection handling.
rep-profile
by jbalbu01Hyper-personalization engine that adapts all enablement content to each rep's skill level, experience, deal patterns, and learning style. Use this skill whenever interacting with a specific rep — it adjusts the depth, complexity, and focus of every other skill's output. Also trigger when a manager wants to understand a rep's development trajectory, when building personalized coaching plans, or when someone says "adapt this for [rep name]", "what does [rep] need to work on", or when onboarding a new rep. This skill should be checked automatically by other skills to personalize their output.
playbook-builder
by jbalbu01Create comprehensive sales playbooks for products, segments, or sales motions. Use this skill whenever someone needs to build a sales playbook, create a new hire onboarding guide, document a sales process, standardize a sales motion, says "build a playbook for [product/segment]", "document our sales process", "create a selling guide", or when systematizing tribal knowledge into repeatable processes. Also trigger when someone mentions sales methodology documentation, go-to-market playbooks, vertical playbooks, or rep enablement guides.
sales-coaching
by jbalbu01Coach sales reps with call reviews, skill development plans, and role-play practice. Use this skill whenever a manager wants to coach a rep, a rep wants to improve their skills, someone asks for feedback on a sales conversation, needs help with a skill development plan, says "coach me on [skill]", "review my call", "how can I improve my close rate", "what should I work on", or when building a training curriculum. Also trigger when someone mentions sales training, rep development, ramp plans, or skill gaps.
deal-qualification
by jbalbu01Qualify sales deals using MEDDIC, BANT, SPICED, or CHAMP frameworks with structured scoring and gap analysis. Use this skill whenever a rep needs to qualify a deal, assess deal health, decide whether to invest more time in an opportunity, says "should I pursue this deal", "qualify this opportunity", "MEDDIC score", "BANT check", or asks about deal qualification criteria. Also trigger when a manager reviews pipeline quality or when someone mentions deal scoring, opportunity assessment, or go/no-go decisions.
objection-handling
by jbalbu01Handle sales objections with proven frameworks, scripted responses, and practice scenarios. Use this skill whenever a rep asks how to respond to a prospect's pushback, needs help with common objections (price, timing, competition, authority, need), wants to build an objection handling library, or says things like "the prospect said X, what do I say?", "how do I handle the price objection", or "they want to think about it". Also trigger when building training materials around objection handling.
campaign-to-field
by jbalbu01Bridge between marketing campaigns and field-ready sales materials — translate launches, campaigns, and messaging into talk tracks, email templates, and discovery angles that reps can actually use. Use this skill whenever marketing launches a campaign and sales needs to know how to leverage it, when there's a product launch and reps need positioning materials, when a rep says "marketing just launched X — how do I use this?", "what's the messaging for [campaign]?", or when aligning sales and marketing on go-to-market motions. Also trigger when someone mentions sales-marketing alignment, campaign enablement, field readiness, or launch readiness.
playbook-builder
by jbalbu01Create comprehensive sales playbooks for products, segments, or sales motions. Use this skill whenever someone needs to build a sales playbook, create a new hire onboarding guide, document a sales process, standardize a sales motion, says "build a playbook for [product/segment]", "document our sales process", "create a selling guide", or when systematizing tribal knowledge into repeatable processes. Also trigger when someone mentions sales methodology documentation, go-to-market playbooks, vertical playbooks, or rep enablement guides.
rep-profile
by jbalbu01Hyper-personalization engine that adapts all enablement content to each rep's skill level, experience, deal patterns, and learning style. Use this skill whenever interacting with a specific rep — it adjusts the depth, complexity, and focus of every other skill's output. Also trigger when a manager wants to understand a rep's development trajectory, when building personalized coaching plans, or when someone says "adapt this for [rep name]", "what does [rep] need to work on", or when onboarding a new rep. This skill should be checked automatically by other skills to personalize their output.
proposal-builder
by jbalbu01Generate customized sales proposals, business cases, and executive summaries tailored to the prospect's situation. Use this skill whenever a rep needs to create a proposal, write a business case, build an executive summary for a deal, draft a commercial proposal, or says "write a proposal for [company]", "help me build a business case", "I need a proposal document", or "create an executive summary for this deal". Also trigger when building SOW outlines, investment justifications, or mutual action plans.
sales-coaching
by jbalbu01Coach sales reps with call reviews, skill development plans, and role-play practice. Use this skill whenever a manager wants to coach a rep, a rep wants to improve their skills, someone asks for feedback on a sales conversation, needs help with a skill development plan, says "coach me on [skill]", "review my call", "how can I improve my close rate", "what should I work on", or when building a training curriculum. Also trigger when someone mentions sales training, rep development, ramp plans, or skill gaps.
Browse Agent Skills by Occupation
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SkillMD is not just a keyword search box. It is an open map that organizes public skills by occupation, creator, and repository, helping you see which workflows, judgment criteria, and domain habits people are writing for AI agents.
Then follow creators and GitHub repositories back to the source: compare the skills a team maintains, whether the repo is active, and how the README frames the work before you open, install, or reuse anything.
Use it three ways: learn an unfamiliar field by occupation, study how creators organize skills, then use source context to decide what is worth opening or reusing.
01 Map a field
Browse 23 occupation groups and 867 SOC roles to learn what skills exist in adjacent domains and how they break down real work.
02 Follow creators
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03 Search with sources
Search 1.7M+ collected skills, then use occupation tags, creators, and GitHub source context to decide what is worth opening.
Start with the occupation map, then follow creators and repositories back to real code. SkillMD helps explain why a skill is worth opening, not only what it is named.
Standardizing Agent Capabilities with SKILL.md and Model Context Protocol (MCP)
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, LLM agents (Large Language Model agents) have transitioned from simple text predictors to autonomous problem solvers. To orchestrate complex, multi-step agentic workflows, developers require a standardized format to specify agent capabilities, prompt instructions, system rules, and database bindings. This is where SKILL.md and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) have emerged as standard developer paradigms. SkillMD serves as the central directory for indexing, exploring, and sharing these critical agent configurations.
Our open-source registry currently tracks over 1.7 million collected SKILL.md configurations and system prompts. By compiling agent configurations from active developers on GitHub, we bridge the gap between prompt engineering research and production execution. Whether you are building agents with Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Gemini, or local models using Ollama and LlamaIndex, standardized skill definitions ensure your agents behave predictably across different runtime environments.
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard designed to connect LLMs to data sources, developer tools, and external environments. MCP establishes a bidirectional communication channel between client applications (like Cursor, Claude Desktop, or custom agent systems) and servers hosting data or capabilities. Standardizing instructions via SKILL.md enables LLMs to query databases, read local files, execute terminal commands, and integrate third-party APIs. SkillMD allows you to find ready-to-run MCP servers and prompt instructions for various occupations and technical tasks.
The Structure of a Professional SKILL.md File
A valid SKILL.md configuration is designed to be easily read by humans and parsed by LLMs. It contains precise system instructions, trigger conditions, required parameters, and execution examples. Below is the typical architectural blueprint of a professional agent skill:
- Metadata & Core Scope: Declares the name of the skill, author details, target models, and a description of the capability.
- Triggers & Intent Detection: Details semantic triggers that help the agent decide when to invoke this skill.
- System Prompts: Explicit system-level instructions that direct the agent's behavior, personality, safety guardrails, and formatting preferences.
- Capabilities & Tools: Lists the files, databases, or APIs the agent must access to complete the tasks.
- Few-Shot Examples: Demonstrates real inputs and outputs, helping the model generalize behavior through in-context learning.
Optimizing Agent Workflows for Modern LLMs
Writing effective agent skills requires deep knowledge of prompt engineering. With the release of advanced reasoning models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, ChatGPT o1, and DeepSeek-V3, prompt templates must focus on structured thinking. Developers are encouraged to use XML tags (e.g., <thought>, <context>, and <rules>) to isolate execution boundaries. Standardized prompts prevent agents from suffering from context drift, ensuring that long-running tasks remain aligned with the initial system parameters.
Exploring by SOC Occupations and Creator Profiles
What makes SkillMD unique is its taxonomy. Instead of simple text search, we parse and organize files according to the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. This means you can discover skills written for Computer and Mathematical roles, Business and Financial operations, Legal, Design, and and Educational Instruction fields. By tracking creator profiles, developers can study how different teams organize their custom instructions, compare version updates, and fork public configs for specialized enterprise use cases.
SkillMD operates as a high-performance index running on a fast Go backend and a highly responsive Astro SSR frontend. All search queries execute in milliseconds, featuring smart debouncing to prevent multiple API requests while keeping user data secure. Join our community of developers to standardize your AI agent instructions and optimize your LLM prompting workflows today.
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