Extend Agent Mode with skills

Skills let you enhance Agent Mode's capabilities with specialized expertise and custom workflows. They are based on the Agent Skills open standard.

Unlike AGENTS.md files, skills represent on-demand expertise. This structure allows Agent Mode to maintain a large number of specialized capabilities—such as migrating between specific library versions or making a composable adapt to different screen sizes—without cluttering the model's immediate context window.

The model autonomously decides when to employ a skill based on your request and the skill's description. When a relevant skill is identified, the model dynamically pulls in the full instructions and resources required to complete the task.

To activate a skill on demand, ask the agent to perform a task that is relevant to the skill. You can also enter @ in the input box to trigger a specific skill.

To import an Android skill into Android Studio, download the skill from the GitHub repository and save it in a directory called .agents/skills or .android-studio/skills at your project root or your home directory.

Note that Android Studio, before Quail, used to load skills from non-standard directories — .skills and agent/skills. If you have skills in those locations, move them to .agents/skills or .android-studio/skills when upgrading Android Studio to Quail 1 or later versions.

To learn more about Android skills, see Intro to Android skills.