How to Manage Skills in Antigravity

Installing skills is only the beginning. If you want a reliable agent workflow, you need a clean, well-managed skill library. This guide covers the practical routines: updates, removals, organization, and governance. With these practices, your Antigravity environment stays fast, safe, and easy to maintain.

Why Skill Management Matters

A skill library grows quickly. Without management, teams end up with:

• Duplicate skills with overlapping purposes.
• Outdated instructions that cause errors.
• Unclear ownership and no update history.
• Skills that drift from team standards.

Good management protects consistency and reduces the risk of mistakes.

Organize Your Skill Library

Start with a clear structure so skills are easy to find and maintain:

• Group by purpose: coding, content, operations, or design.
• Use consistent naming: avoid abbreviations that only one person understands.
• Keep a README: document the purpose and owner of each skill category.

This structure makes future updates much faster.

Update Skills Safely

Updates should be routine, not risky. Use a predictable process:

1. Review the change log: know what changed and why.
2. Run a test workflow: validate that the skill still behaves as expected.
3. Verify compatibility: confirm it does not break shared templates or scripts.
4. Record the update: log the new version or commit reference.

If a skill is used across teams, announce the update to avoid surprises.

Remove Skills Cleanly

Unused or broken skills should be removed to prevent confusion:

• Archive the skill folder if you might need it later.
• Remove it from the registry or skill list.
• Delete references in documentation or templates.

Removing a skill is as important as adding one. It keeps the library clean and reduces accidental use.

Versioning and Ownership

Skills are small, but they are still software. Assign ownership and track versions:

• Use version numbers or commit hashes in the skill README.
• Assign a primary maintainer for each skill.
• Schedule periodic reviews for high-impact skills.

Ownership prevents “abandoned” skills from becoming silent liabilities.

Governance for Teams

If you manage skills across a team, adopt simple governance rules:

• New skills must pass a lightweight review.
• High-risk skills require explicit security checks.
• Changes must be documented.
• Deprecated skills must be marked clearly.

This avoids chaos as the library grows.

Common Maintenance Tasks

Here are practical tasks to run monthly or quarterly:

• Audit skills for duplicates or outdated workflows.
• Update skill descriptions to match current usage.
• Remove scripts that are no longer used.
• Validate that skill directories still match naming conventions.

These tasks take little time but keep the system healthy.

Troubleshooting Issues

• Skill runs but output is inconsistent: update templates or add validation steps.
• Skill fails after an update: roll back to the previous version and document the issue.
• Team confusion about usage: add usage examples to the SKILL.md.

Most problems are solved by clearer documentation and consistent validation.

Conclusion

Managing skills in Antigravity is about stability, not bureaucracy. With a clean structure, predictable updates, and clear ownership, your skill library becomes an asset rather than a source of risk.

Treat skills like any other dependency: organize them, update them responsibly, and remove what you no longer use. Your workflows will become faster, more reliable, and easier to scale.