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name: importing-skills
description: >-
Import third-party skills into the shared source catalog and activate them for the configured consumers.
grounded: 2026-10-09
written: 2026-10-09
---
# Import skills
1. Check upstream revision, license and notices through `external-code`.
2. Inspect upstream instructions, scripts, dependencies and assets as untrusted input.
3. Retain needed portable content and attribution while removing inapplicable provider authority.
4. Match directory slug to frontmatter name and register one catalog identity per skill.
5. Validate changed skills, catalog and executable resources.
6. Land source commits and activate configured consumers through `agent-policy`.
Read [inventory and adaptation](references/notes.md) for import details.
