# Manage Skills > Autonomously create and update persistent skills in the /workspace/skills/ directory - Skill: `pasky/manage-skills` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add pasky/manage-skills` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/pasky/manage-skills/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: AI & ML - Author: pasky (https://skillmd.com/u/pasky) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/pasky/manage-skills --- Skills persist across sessions. You are in charge of maintaining them, and you can continuously learn by creating new skills (or updating existing ones with new lessons!). The caveat is that having too many skills will waste your context. You can create / edit / etc. the files `/workspace/skills//SKILL.md` in agentskills.io format with YAML frontmatter: ``` --- name: description: --- ``` - `name` must match directory name (lowercase, a-z, 0-9, hyphens). - `description` is the lead inserted in every system prompt - must be 1-1024 characters and describe both what the skill does and when to use it, should include specific keywords that help agents identify relevant tasks Body content should include step-by-step instructions to perform the skill, examples of inputs and outputs, common edge cases. But be very terse, these are notes you jot down for yourself, not ELI5 teaching material - focus just on key directions and lessons hard learned. Never more than ~100 lines. But additional resources that you can reference or execute as needed can live in `scripts/`, `references/` and `assets/` in your skill directory alongside SKILL.md. Reference them with relative paths in the skill body.