Guides
Guides
A short, plain guide to what Provely does and how to get the most out of it. No jargon, no hype, just what the tool is for and how it works.
Building with agents
Skill Check
Evidence-based feedback on whether an AI agent skill actually does what it claims. Nothing is run.
Fundamentals
What are agent skills?
What SKILL.md and its frontmatter do, how a skill folder is laid out, and what it means for a skill to be portable.
Troubleshooting
Why skills do not trigger
How triggering works, the vague-description failure that keeps a good skill unused, and how to test it yourself.
Troubleshooting
Common skill mistakes
The mistakes a review keeps finding: claim drift, broken frontmatter, kitchen-sink skills and secrets left in files.
Before you start
Find a skill already installed on your machine
Where Claude Code, Codex and Claude Desktop keep installed skills, with copy-paste commands to find and zip one.