Get Skill

$ ant skills retrieve

GET/v1/skills/{skill_id}

Get Skill

Parameters

--skill-id: string

Unique identifier for the skill.

The format and length of IDs may change over time.

Returns

skill: object{ id, created_at, display_name, 4 more }

id: string

Unique identifier for the skill.

The format and length of IDs may change over time.

created_at: string

ISO 8601 timestamp of when the skill was created.

formatdate-time

display_name: string

Human-readable, single-line label for the Skill. Maximum 255 characters. Always set: derived from the SKILL.md frontmatter name when omitted at creation. Not unique.

latest_version_id: string

ID of the newest Skill Version — what latest references resolve to. Always set: a Skill holds at least one version.

source: object{ type }

Where the Skill comes from.

Possible values:

"custom": authored by the platform user; private to their workspace
"anthropic": published by Anthropic; shared and read-only
"anthropic_example": Anthropic-published sample Skill
"plugin": resolved from an installed plugin

type: "custom" or "anthropic" or "anthropic_example" or "plugin"

Where the Skill comes from.

Possible values:

"custom": authored by the platform user; private to their workspace
"anthropic": published by Anthropic; shared and read-only
"anthropic_example": Anthropic-published sample Skill
"plugin": resolved from an installed plugin

One of the following:

"custom"

"anthropic"

"anthropic_example"

"plugin"

type: "skill"

Object type.

For Skills, this is always "skill".

updated_at: string

ISO 8601 timestamp of when the skill was last updated.

formatdate-time

Get Skill

ant skills retrieve \
  --api-key my-anthropic-api-key \
  --skill-id skill_id

{
  "id": "skill_01JAbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw",
  "created_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
  "display_name": "display_name",
  "latest_version_id": "latest_version_id",
  "source": {
    "type": "custom"
  },
  "type": "skill",
  "updated_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z"
}

Returns Examples

{
  "id": "skill_01JAbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw",
  "created_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
  "display_name": "display_name",
  "latest_version_id": "latest_version_id",
  "source": {
    "type": "custom"
  },
  "type": "skill",
  "updated_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z"
}