Claude Skills Installation Path: Where to Put Your Skills

A quick reference for the exact file paths used by Claude Code and other AI agents for SKILL.md skills.

Claude Code paths

Personal (all projects):

• macOS: /Users/yourname/.claude/skills/
• Linux: /home/yourname/.claude/skills/
• Windows WSL: /home/yourname/.claude/skills/

Project-level (current repo only):

• Any OS: <project-root>/.claude/skills/

OpenClaw paths

Personal: ~/.openclaw/skills/ Project: .openclaw/skills/

Codex CLI paths

Personal: ~/.codex/skills/ Project: .codex/skills/

Cursor paths

Project: .cursor/skills/

Creating the directories

# Claude Code
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills

# OpenClaw
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills

# Codex CLI
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills

# All at once
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.openclaw/skills ~/.codex/skills

Verifying the correct path

The number one installation issue is putting skills in the wrong path. Verify with:

# This should show your skill folders
ls ~/.claude/skills/

# Each folder should contain SKILL.md
ls ~/.claude/skills/code-reviewer/SKILL.md

If ls shows nothing after installing, the path is wrong. Common mistakes:

~/.claude/skill/ (missing the 's') — wrong ~/.claude/Skills/ (capitalized) — wrong on case-sensitive systems ~/.claude/skills/code-reviewer/code-reviewer/SKILL.md (double nested) — wrong

The correct structure is always: ~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md

Installing a skill to the right path in one command

# From Agensi
unzip skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

# From GitHub
git clone https://github.com/author/repo.git /tmp/repo && \
  cp -r /tmp/repo/skill-name ~/.claude/skills/ && \
  rm -rf /tmp/repo

Sharing skills across agents

# Symlink Claude skills to OpenClaw
ln -s ~/.claude/skills/code-reviewer ~/.openclaw/skills/code-reviewer

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Download skills ready for any path from Agensi.