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generic is a built-in pseudo-agent that owns the vendor-neutral .agents/skills (project) and ~/.agents/skills (global) directories. Several agents, Cursor, Codex, Cline, Warp, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Amp, Antigravity, install through the generic renderer rather than maintaining their own skills directory.

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When you’d target it directly

Most of the time you won’t. You’ll target the actual agents you use: 
skills:
  - source: my-skills
    agents: [cursor, codex, cline]
…and gaal will write to the right shared directory because each of those agents declares supports_generic_project: true. You target generic directly when you want to populate the shared directory without depending on a specific agent being installed: 
skills:
  - source: my-skills
    agents: [generic]
    global: false       # → .agents/skills
This is useful for pre-staging a new machine, or for installing skills that any future generic-fallback agent will pick up.

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Paths

ResourcePath
Project skills.agents/skills
Global skills~/.agents/skills
MCP config, (no MCP target)
Audit search (project).agents/skills
Audit search (global)~/.agents/skills

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MCP servers

generic doesn’t own an MCP config file. To install MCP servers for generic-fallback agents, target the agent’s actual MCP config. See the relevant per-agent page.

Agents & renderers

Custom agents