Why Agent Skills?

After Anthropic introduced Agent Skills in October 2025, Skills have gained momentum as a standard way to extend AI agents with specialized capabilities. Skills package domain-specific knowledge, workflows, and scripts that agents can invoke when relevant to a task.

Unlike rules or MCP, which are always preloaded into the context window, Skills are loaded dynamically when the agent determines that a particular Skill is relevant. This helps keep the context window clean while still giving the agent access to the specialized capabilities it needs.

In the case of ByteRover, agents can choose to interact with ByteRover CLI for context-related tasks only when necessary.

Why Skills for ByteRover?

In agentic coding, beyond Claude Code, major players such as Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity have adopted Skills in their tools, enabling developers to build Skills for agents.

This reflects how Skills have emerged as a more advanced way to integrate specialized capabilities into agent workflows.

As ByteRover CLI has become an essential tool for development teams to centralize knowledge, memory, and context across coding agents, we want to make it more accessible across agents and more flexible across different integration setups.

Over the past two weeks, we’ve introduced Hooks for Claude Code, MCP, and now Skill as another connector option.

With Skills, we hope you now have an additional integration choice, allowing you to select what works best for your coding agents when working with ByteRover CLI.

Try it now

Skill is available starting in ByteRover CLI 1.3.0. If you’re already using ByteRover CLI, you’ll see a prompt in your terminal to upgrade to the latest version.

Once updated, you can restart the CLI and choose Skill as your integration option.

If you’re new to ByteRover, you can get started at app.byterover.dev.