Manage Skills Like Dependencies
summary
Packages skills.md files as versioned JARs so JVM projects treat skills like dependencies, published to Maven Central or an internal repo via tooling and Maven/Gradle/SBT plugins; website deploys do an AI security scan before publishing. Example workflow extracts JARs to .agent/skills (IntelliJ AI assistant finds them), an IntelliJ plugin lists installed skills, and a Spring AI custom agent using Bedrock + OpenAI GPT‑OSS‑120B loads a PDF skill, writes Python, executes it and actually creates a PDF. Popularity note: tens of thousands of skills exist. SkillsJars Zen of James META-INF/skills
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:45Agent skills
- 3:07Zen of James
- 4:33JetBrains Skill Manager and Repository
- 5:04SkillsJars
- 10:45Security scanning of skills
- 11:56Consume SkillsJars in coding assistants
- 19:36IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for SkillsJars
- 22:01Consume SkillsJars in custom agents
- 31:56Publishing skills on SkillsJars
- 36:30ai4jvm.com
- 37:31MCP servers
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