-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 11.2k
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Gemini CLI currently uses .gemini/skills for skill discovery. However, to align with emerging industry standards and provide a more tool-agnostic configuration path, we should explicitly document and support the .agents/skills convention.
As noted in the Antigravity Skills documentation, standardizing on a generic .agents/ path allows for better interoperability and a more intuitive experience for developers working across different AI agent platforms.
Describe the solution you'd like
Update the Gemini CLI documentation to:
- Officially document
.agents/skills/as a supported directory for both User (~/.agents/skills/) and Workspace (.agents/skills/) tiers. - Clarify the precedence rules: when both exist in the same tier,
.agents/skills/is prioritized over.gemini/skills/. - Update tutorials and CLI examples to reflect this standardized path as the preferred generic alternative.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Continuing to use only .gemini/ specific paths, which can create friction for users seeking tool-agnostic configurations.
Additional context
Aligning with the .agents/ convention ensures that skills created for Gemini CLI follow the same discovery patterns seen in other modern AI agent tools. Support for this alias was previously added in PR #18151.