How do I install the Config Guide skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add anthropics/config-guide in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Config Guide safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Config Guide?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Config Guide free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Config Guide?

anthropics (@anthropics) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Config Guide by anthropics — Agent Skill

Name: Config Guide
Author: anthropics

Config Guide

Reference guide for configuring @Claude agents — agents, agent scopes, identity profiles, presets, connections, rules, GitHub repositories, and custom instructions. Explains the inheritance model and configuration best practices.

anthropics 9f8ad3b 6 files · 10.1 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

@Claude — Configuration Guide

@Claude is configured through a small set of layered objects in the claude.ai admin settings: agents, agent scopes, identity profiles, and the presets / connections / repos / instructions attached to them. The layering decides what any given session can see and do.

This guide is currently written for the Slack surface.

This skill is an index. Read the relevant reference file below for the topic the user is asking about — each is short and self-contained.

Topic	Reference file
Agents, agent scopes, the resolution chain, and per-field inheritance	`agents-and-scopes.md`
Identity profiles, scopes, rules, credentials, repo permissions	`identity-profiles.md`
Presets, connections (OAuth / MCP), how to install one	`connections-and-presets.md`
GitHub repositories and custom instructions	`github-and-instructions.md`
Best practices: profile layout, read-only vs read/write, rollout	`best-practices.md`

All reference files live alongside this SKILL.md in the same directory.

After explaining configuration, you can suggest the user run the debug-plugins skill in a new Slack thread to confirm the change actually took effect inside the container.

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