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Expand your skills registry

A skills registry starts as one catalog of every skill in your organization, with owners and groups. If you haven't set one up yet, start with get started with a skills registry.

Add capabilities to your registry​

Once the registry is in place, you can add governance and insight one capability at a time. Each guide below builds on the registry, and you can pick the ones that matter to you, in any order.

Ship new skills through one golden path​

The ship new skills through one golden path guide gives developers a single self-service way to publish a skill. An AI node extracts the skill's metadata, a pull request opens automatically, and the skill is registered as pending until the pull request is merged. Reviewers approve or reject pending requests from the Skills Lifecycle Control dashboard.

Skills Lifecycle Control dashboard with a Skills Publish Status chart of 73 published skills and a Pending Publish Requests table listing skills awaiting approval, with their production readiness, uniqueness, composability and discoverability levels

Certify skills to meet industry and org standards​

The certify skills to meet industry and org standards guide adds an AI review of each skill's description, a discoverability scorecard, and an approve, iterate or reject recommendation with a Slack notification. The Skills Registry Health dashboard shows the result across the organization.

Skills Registry Health dashboard with a Skills Production Readiness chart by Gold, Silver, Bronze and Basic levels, a count of 28 published skills not certified, and a Discoverability chart of descriptions rated good, too verbose and too vague

Avoid duplicate skills in your org registry​

The avoid duplicate skills in your org registry guide adds a similarity check before a skill is published, with a prompt to publish anyway or cancel, and a uniqueness check during certification that links similar skills.

Publish Skill workflow in Port: a Check for Similar Skill step, then a Similar Skill Found condition; if a similar skill is found, a Confirm Publish Despite Similar Skill step offers Publish Anyway or Cancel Publish, otherwise publishing continues

Bundle skills into plugins​

The bundle skills into plugins guide adds a plugin blueprint and AI suggestions for which plugin a skill belongs in, so one install covers a whole role or team.

Agent Plugins catalog table showing each plugin, its supported providers, owning team, groups, production readiness, and Claude Code install command

Measure the ROI of skills in your org registry​

The measure the ROI of skills in your org registry guide links usage and spend data to each skill to calculate cost per run, an ROI scorecard and total savings, so you know which skills to invest in, standardize or retire. To track adoption, sharing and spend over time, add the visualize Claude skills adoption dashboard.

Skills Registry Health dashboard with Total $ Saved (Last 30 Days), Average Skill ROI, and Skill ROI widgets