--- title: "Introducing the Skill Manager and Skill Repository" source_name: "The JetBrains Blog" original_url: "https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/" canonical_url: "https://www.traeai.com/articles/f60f2928-2d54-4a1a-8383-c3bbd0087e9a" content_type: "article" language: "英文" score: 8.5 tags: ["JetBrains","AI","技能管理","开发工具"] published_at: "2026-04-28T07:47:33+00:00" created_at: "2026-04-28T23:16:39.011621+00:00" --- # Introducing the Skill Manager and Skill Repository Canonical URL: https://www.traeai.com/articles/f60f2928-2d54-4a1a-8383-c3bbd0087e9a Original source: https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/ ## Summary JetBrains 推出 Skill Manager 和 Skill Repository，提升技能复用性和管理效率。 ## Key Takeaways - Skill Manager 提供统一的 IDE 层级技能管理，支持跨项目和代理复用。 - Skill Repository 提供经过验证的技能集合，降低使用门槛并提升安全性。 - 推荐技能涵盖 React、Postgres、Playwright 等多种开发场景。 ## Content Title: Introducing the Skill Manager and Skill Repository | The JetBrains AI Blog URL Source: http://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/ Markdown Content: [![Image 1: Ai logo](https://blog.jetbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/JetBrains-AI.svg)](https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/) Supercharge your tools with AI-powered features inside many JetBrains products [AI](https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/category/ai/)[JetBrains AI](https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/category/jetbrains-ai/) ## Introducing the Skill Manager and Skill Repository ![Image 2: Dominique Rolink](https://blog.jetbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/image-1-1.png) April 28, 2026 ### **_Install trusted skills once, then use them across agents and projects._** Two new features have just arrived in AI Assistant to address this issue: the skills manager and the skill repository. Together, they make skills easier to discover, trust, and reuse. Instead of keeping skills tied to one agent or project you can install them once and use them wherever they are needed while managing them from inside the IDE. In practice, a skill gives an agent reusable capabilities for a specific task. The problem is that skills often stay tied to a single setup. They live with one agent, one repository, or one machine. Skills Manager changes that by making them reusable across projects and supported agents.For a quick introduction to what skills are, check out this [great explanation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ-ilGRnN1w) from PyCharm Content Creator Kristel Cocoli. ## **Skills manager: One place to install, manage, and reuse skills** Skills are useful because they give agents reusable capabilities for specific developer tasks, whether that is debugging CI failures, working through PR comments, automating browser flows, or converting Java to Kotlin. The problem is that they often stay locked to a single setup. Skills Manager fixes that by adding a new **IDE layer** for skill management. That means developers can install skills once inside the IDE and make them available across supported agents and across all projects opened in that IDE, instead of rebuilding the same setup over and over. It also supports different ways of working depending on the task. Some skills belong at the IDE level, where they stay available across projects for an individual developer. Some belong at the project level, where they can travel with the repository and be shared through version control. Others are best kept agent-specific, tied to a dedicated workflow like CI triage, frontend work, or code review. That is the core improvement: Skills Manager gives developers one place to discover recommended skills, choose the right scope for each one, and keep those skills available where the work actually happens. ## **Skill repository: A verified starting point** The skills manager makes skills easier to use. The [skill repository](https://github.com/JetBrains/skills) makes them easier to get started with. At launch, the repository gives you a JetBrains-filtered and verified list of skills, organized for easier discovery and reuse. Instead of building a collection from scratch or managing it by hand, you get a curated starting point with skills that are ready to be installed. The repository is also designed to make adoption safer. New additions are screened to detect prompt injection, data exfiltration, and malicious code patterns. Attribution is preserved by using the skill’s own author metadata when available, or otherwise crediting the upstream maintainer or organization. That gives you a practical starting point you can trust, with useful skills, a safer adoption path, and clear credit to the people who created them. ## **Recommended skills to try first** Here are just a few examples from the repository that show the range of tasks where skills can be used to guide agents with improved accuracy. To view the full repository, check out this link: [https://github.com/JetBrains/skills](https://github.com/JetBrains/skills). * [**React-best-practices**](https://github.com/JetBrains/skills/tree/main/react-best-practices)**–**Reusable React and Next.js guidance for writing, reviewing, and refactoring frontend code. * [**postgres-best-practices**](https://github.com/JetBrains/skills/tree/main/postgres-best-practices)**–**Practical guidance for Postgres queries, schema design, performance, and security. * [**playwright**](https://github.com/JetBrains/skills/tree/main/playwright)**–**A structured way to automate and debug real browser flows. * [**pnpm**](https://github.com/JetBrains/skills/tree/main/pnpm)**–**Better support for pnpm-based JavaScript projects, including workspaces and CI usage. * [**kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin**](https://github.com/JetBrains/skills/tree/main/kotlin-tooling-java-to-kotlin)**–**Support for disciplined migration from Java to idiomatic Kotlin. ## **Transparency and limitations** Skills Manager introduces an **IDE-wide layer** so developers can install skills once and make them available across supported agents and all projects opened within the IDE. That is the recommended default experience, but support is not universal yet. * Today, IDE-wide skill storage is supported in **AI Assistant Chat** for **Codex** and **Claude Agent**. Support for **Junie** and other ACP agents is coming. * For **CLI workflows**, the experience is different. CLI agents cannot use IDE-installed skills, so terminal-based workflows still rely on **project-level** or **agent-specific** installation. * Support also differs slightly between agents. Due to harness’ configuration Claude Agent can’t work with .agents folder and uses its own agent-specific location (.claude folder), instead of the shared project location. * The repository will also keep expanding over time, including with more **IDE-specific skills**. ## **Get started** To get started, install the AI Assistant plugin in your JetBrains IDE. In the AI chat, click the _+_ button and go to _Skills_ to add, remove, and manage the skills that fit your workflow. Watch [this video](https://youtu.be/rBJrUu6No-w)from JetBrains Developer Advocate Michelle Frost to see how installation works and which skills she recommends. [](http://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/#) 1. [Install trusted skills once, then use them across agents and projects.](http://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/#install-trusted-skills-once,-then-use-them-across-agents-and-projects.) 2. [Skills manager: One place to install, manage, and reuse skills](http://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/#skills-manager-one-place-to-install,-manage,-and-reuse-skills) 3. [Skill repository: A verified starting point](http://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/#skill-repository-a-verified-starting-point) 4. [Recommended skills to try first](http://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/#recommended-skills-to-try-first) 5. [Transparency and limitations](http://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/#transparency-and-limitations) 6. [Get started](http://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/04/using-acp-deep-agents-to-demystify-modern-software-engineering-2/#get-started) ## Discover more