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Skills

Skills are portable instruction packs (a SKILL.md file plus optional reference docs) that teach an agent a new capability. The Bankr ecosystem uses skills in two directions, and they're easy to confuse — this page exists so you don't.

The two directions

1. Add Bankr to your agent

You're using a coding agent or assistant elsewhere — Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cursor, or any other framework that supports skills — and you want it to be able to trade tokens, manage a portfolio, place bets on Polymarket, and so on.

Install the Bankr skill into that agent. Bankr is the skill, your agent is the host.

Install the Bankr skill in your agent

2. Add skills to your Bankr agent

You're running a Bankr agent (the one at bankr.bot/terminal) and you want to extend it with new behaviors — domain-specific workflows, custom playbooks, integrations with services Bankr doesn't natively know about.

Install skills into Bankr. Bankr is the host, the new skills are guests.

Add skills to your Bankr agent

Same format, both directions

Either way, a skill is just a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter and a markdown body, optionally accompanied by a references/ folder of supporting docs. The same skill file can often work in both directions with no changes.

SKILL.md format reference

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