# Ship agent skills like packages: discovery index, digests, and install sources

DevFeed: [Ship agent skills like packages: discovery index, digests, and install sources](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ship-agent-skills-like-packages-discovery-index-digests-and-install-sources-19788.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/publishing-agent-skills-discovery-index>)

Author: Travis Turner (richardturner@evilmartians.com)

Published: 2026-08-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Evil Martians](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/evil-martians.md>)

Topics: [Agent Skills](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-skills.md>), [Agent Skill](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-skill.md>), [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-coding.md>), [Publishing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/publishing.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [make](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/make.md>), [rubygems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rubygems.md>)

Tags: [agent-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-experience.md>), [agent-skill](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-skill.md>), [agent-skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-skills.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [coding-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding-agents.md>), [dx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dx.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [jamstack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jamstack.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/npm.md>), [rubygems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rubygems.md>), [sha-256](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sha-256.md>), [skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/skills.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to publish agent skills so AI coding agents can discover and install them. It covers a .well-known/agent-skills/index.json discovery index, SHA-256 integrity digests, single-file, multi-file, and bundle packaging, multiple install commands, and hosting skills from a GitHub repository while re-hosting the served files on the publisher's domain.

## Source excerpt

How to publish agent skills so any AI coding agent can find and install them: the .well-known/agent-skills/index.json discovery index, SHA-256 integrity digests, single-file vs multi-file vs bundle packaging, and every install command. Worked from the catalog we just open-sourced.