Skills manager: One place to install, manage, and reuse skills
- Skills are useful because they give agents reusable capabilities for specific developer tasks, whether that is debugging CI failures, working through PR comments, automating browser flows, or converting Java to Kotlin. The problem is that they often stay locked to a single setup.
- Skills Manager fixes that by adding a new IDE layer for skill management. That means developers can install skills once inside the IDE and make them available across supported agents and across all projects opened in that IDE, instead of rebuilding the same setup over and over.
- It also supports different ways of working depending on the task. Some skills belong at the IDE level, where they stay available across projects for an individual developer. Some belong at the project level, where they can travel with the repository and be shared through version control. Others are best kept agent-specific, tied to a dedicated workflow like CI triage, frontend work, or code review.
- That is the core improvement: Skills Manager gives developers one place to discover recommended skills, choose the right scope for each one, and keep those skills available where the work actually happens.
Skill repository: A verified starting point
- The skills manager makes skills easier to use. The skill repository makes them easier to get started with.
- At launch, the repository gives you a JetBrains-filtered and verified list of skills, organized for easier discovery and reuse. Instead of building a collection from scratch or managing it by hand, you get a curated starting point with skills that are ready to be installed.
- The repository is also designed to make adoption safer. New additions are screened to detect prompt injection, data exfiltration, and malicious code patterns. Attribution is preserved by using the skill's own author metadata when available, or otherwise crediting the upstream maintainer or organization. That gives you a practical starting point you can trust, with useful skills, a safer adoption path, and clear credit to the people who created them.