> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getgaal.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Generic

> The vendor-neutral fallback for agents that share .agents/skills.

`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.

## When you'd target it directly

Most of the time you won't. You'll target the actual agents you use:

```yaml theme={"theme":"nord"}
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:

```yaml theme={"theme":"nord"}
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.

## Paths

| Resource               | Path               |
| ---------------------- | ------------------ |
| Project skills         | `.agents/skills`   |
| Global skills          | `~/.agents/skills` |
| MCP config             | , (no MCP target)  |
| Audit search (project) | `.agents/skills`   |
| Audit search (global)  | `~/.agents/skills` |

## 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.

## Related

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