Zed/install-skill
Share a skill
Prompts the recipient to review and install a skill embedded in the link itself.
Format
zed://skill?data={data}Try it
zed://skill?data=LS0tCm5hbWU6IG15LXNraWxsCmRlc2NyaXB0aW9uOiBEb2VzIGEgdGhpbmcuCi0tLQoKRG8gdGhlIHRoaW5nLgoOpenWhat you supply
{data}The entire contents of a
SKILL.mdfile, base64url-encoded.base64url with no padding — the URL-safe alphabet, and no trailing
=. Standard base64 will not decode.
The whole skill travels inside the link. There is no registry lookup and no download: the
SKILL.md contents are encoded into the data parameter, so the recipient gets the complete
file from the URL alone.
That makes it self-contained and easy to paste anywhere — and it means you should read one before you accept it. A skill is standing instructions for an agent, and this link carries an entire skill from a stranger. Zed prompts for review rather than installing silently, which is the correct behaviour and worth not clicking through.
Long skills make long URLs. Some chat clients truncate.