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Agent Readiness

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Agent Readiness skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Agent Readiness is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: science-misc · Last updated: 2026-06-04

Use to ASSESS, HARDEN, SCAFFOLD, or DIAGNOSE a repository's agent-readiness for coding-agent harnesses such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Windsurf, and Aider. Covers AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, and MCP scaffolding, PreToolUse and other hooks, CI gates, sandbox and approval design, and repo-level agent failure modes; harness-agnostic and portable-first (AGENTS.md, MCP, OpenTelemetry); ships an opinionated checklist grounded in published research. Triggers on 'make this repo work with Claude Code / Cursor / Codex', 'scaffold our AGENTS.md', 'add an agent hook or gate', 'why did the agent trip on our repo', 'score our agent-readiness'. Do NOT use to design agent-facing products like SDKs or llms.txt docs (use agent-experience), to promote recurring failures into rules from a feedback signal (use agent-rules), or to instrument an AI product's eval loops (use agent-evals).

About this skill (catalog notes)

Agent Readiness is published as a SKILL.md file in this catalog. At roughly 1,728 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.

Source: skills.sh
License: MIT
Original author: Thulr
Indexed lastmod: 2026-06-04
Catalog position: Science & Research · science-misc
Indexed related skills: 10

How Agent Readiness fits the catalog

Agent Readiness sits in the Science & Research category under the science-misc sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

Assess, harden, scaffold, and diagnose a repository's agent-readiness. Harness-agnostic; portable-first (AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, MCP, OpenTelemetry). Grounding sources live in skill.json; this file is runtime routing only.

What this skill does

Agent Readiness is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/agent-readiness/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Agent Readiness Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 117,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/agent-readiness
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/agent-readiness/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/agent-readiness/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/agent-readiness/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/agent-readiness/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\agent-readiness\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Agent Readiness Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/agent-readiness/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Agent Readiness skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Agent Readiness skill?

Use Agent Readiness when your Claude Code task falls under the Science & Research category — specifically in the science misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Agent Readiness" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/science/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Agent Readiness skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Agent Readiness is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/Thulr/informed-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/agent-readiness/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: Thulr
Website: https://skills.sh

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

Thulr. (2026). Agent Readiness [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/agent-readiness/

BibTeX

@misc{agent-readiness-2026,
  author    = {Thulr},
  title     = {Agent Readiness [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/agent-readiness/}
}

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