# Amp — Agent Skills

- Company: Amp (ampcode.com)
- Announced: 2025-12-10
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://ampcode.com/news/agent-skills
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7777-agent-skills
- Subject: Amp

Amp introduced agent skills, a feature that allows agents to lazily-load instructions for using local tools, installed by default in .agents/skills/ and compatible with existing skills directories.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ampcode.com/news/agent-skills:

> Amp supports agent skills. Skills let the agent lazily-load specific instructions on how to use local tools.

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