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Cline is an open-source AI assistant for VS Code. Both project and global skills use the vendor-neutral .agents/skills and ~/.agents/skills conventions; MCP config lives in VS Code’s settings.json.

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Paths

ResourcePath
Project skills.agents/skills (generic fallback)
Global skills~/.agents/skills (generic fallback)
MCP config~/.vscode/settings.json
Audit search (project).agents/skills, .github/skills, .claude/skills
Audit search (global)~/.agents/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.claude/skills

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Skills example

gaal.yaml
skills:
  - source: anthropics/skills
    agents: [cline]
    global: false
Skills land in .agents/skills/, Cline picks them up via the generic convention.

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MCP example

gaal.yaml
mcps:
  - name: filesystem
    target: ~/.vscode/settings.json
    inline:
      command: uvx
      args: [mcp-server-filesystem, ~/projects]

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