diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d143ddc..cb06c64 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -109,6 +109,13 @@ actually read (and which hot ones nobody maintains).
 - **Conflict-safe** — concurrent edits resolve deterministically
   (last-writer-wins), and the losing version is preserved as a
   `name.bdrive-conflict-<device>-<time>` file. Nothing is silently dropped.
+- **Your agent's skills sync too** — `.claude/skills`, `.claude/commands`,
+  `.claude/agents`, `AGENTS.md` and `CLAUDE.md` are ordinary files in the
+  project, so a skill one person writes is on every teammate's disk before
+  their agent's next turn — no export, no registry, no MCP server per client.
+  Agent **hook** configuration never syncs: sharing what an agent *reads* is
+  the product; sharing what it *runs* is not. Start a project from the
+  `skills` template (`bdrive init --template skills`) for the shape.
 - **Selective sync** — a gitignore-style `.bdriveignore` opts files out, and
   `bdrive init . --only wiki,docs` (or the interactive prompt) narrows a mount
   to some of its subfolders by writing those same rules for you.
@@ -229,7 +236,7 @@ hub's own storage, never something a syncing client points at directly:
 |---|---|
 | `bdrive login [server-url]` | Sign this device in (browser flow — the page names the account this terminal would act as and lets you switch before approving; `--device` forces the approval-link flow, and shells without a TTY fall back to it automatically; default server beardrive.ai — the managed cloud, free personal workspace on signup; pass your hub URL to self-host). Switch hubs with `bdrive login <new-url>` |
 | `bdrive logout` | Sign this device out — revoke this device's token on the hub and clear it locally (`--forget` also drops the remembered server) |
-| `bdrive init [folder]` | Create/connect a project and start syncing — the mount is always exactly the folder named. Interactive on a TTY, flags (`--name/--project/--server/--only/--template/--yes`) for scripts; `--template docs\|wiki\|para` starts the project from a structure (directories plus the `AGENTS.md` that explains them) instead of an empty folder; registers agent sync hooks and the login autostart in each platform's user config (`--no-hooks` skips the hooks), prints the project link; re-run to resume |
+| `bdrive init [folder]` | Create/connect a project and start syncing — the mount is always exactly the folder named. Interactive on a TTY, flags (`--name/--project/--server/--only/--template/--yes`) for scripts; `--template docs\|wiki\|para\|skills` starts the project from a structure (directories plus the `AGENTS.md` that explains them) instead of an empty folder; registers agent sync hooks and the login autostart in each platform's user config (`--no-hooks` skips the hooks), prints the project link; re-run to resume |
 | `bdrive resume` | Restart the sync daemon for every project on this device that isn't paused — after a reboot, a crash, or a manual kill. Idempotent; this is what the login agent runs |
 | `bdrive autostart [install\|uninstall]` | Show, add, or remove the login registration that runs `bdrive resume` after a reboot — a launchd user agent on macOS, a systemd user unit on Linux. `bdrive init` installs it; `--no-autostart` skips it |
 | `bdrive stop [folder]` | Stop syncing, including agent sync hooks (files stay; `bdrive init` resumes) |
@@ -419,7 +426,7 @@ subfolders** (e.g. `./wiki`). Every question has a flag (`--name`,
 prompts — it creates-or-joins a project named after the folder, empty, and
 syncs everything.
 
-`--template docs`, `wiki` or `para` starts a **new** project from a
+`--template docs`, `wiki`, `para` or `skills` starts a **new** project from a
 structure rather than an empty folder: a small directory skeleton plus the
 `AGENTS.md` that tells an agent where a new note goes, when something is
 archived, and what a good filename looks like — which is the part that keeps
@@ -433,7 +440,7 @@ joining a project that already exists never restructures it, and
 `--template` is refused together with `--only` (scope rules live in the
 synced `.bdriveignore`, so a scope that left out the template's folders would
 hide them for the whole team). Creating a project in the web UI offers the
-same three starting points. It writes `.bdrive/config.json`, seeds a starter
+same starting points. It writes `.bdrive/config.json`, seeds a starter
 `.bdriveignore` (node_modules, build dirs, caches, `.env*`), and starts the
 daemon — local changes are detected within seconds, and the agent sync
 hooks sync at every turn boundary. Not signed in yet? init runs the login
diff --git a/architecture/cli-sync.md b/architecture/cli-sync.md
index bc60832..beb33e3 100644
--- a/architecture/cli-sync.md
+++ b/architecture/cli-sync.md
@@ -68,9 +68,10 @@ classDiagram
         +ReservedDir(name) .git .bdrive
         +ReservedName(name) .DS_Store, tmp
         +AgentHookConfig(p) bool
+        +AgentConfigDir(name) bool
         +ReservedPath(p) bool
     }
-    note for ReservedPath "Case-and-trailing-dot folded, so `.BDRIVE.` is still reserved. AgentHookConfig names the files an agent EXECUTES (.claude/settings.json, .codex/*, .gemini, .hermes, .mcp.json at any depth) — a synced project must never be able to hand a teammate's agent new hooks. Deliberately its own list, not derived from internal/agenthooks: config imports nothing"
+    note for ReservedPath "Case-and-trailing-dot folded, so `.BDRIVE.` is still reserved. AgentHookConfig names the files an agent EXECUTES (.claude/settings.json, .codex/*, .gemini, .hermes, .mcp.json at any depth) — a synced project must never be able to hand a teammate's agent new hooks. Deliberately its own list, not derived from internal/agenthooks: config imports nothing. AgentConfigDir answers about ONE segment, for init's mount-root gate: the reserved rule only sees segments BELOW a root, so mounting ~/.claude itself leaves settings.json a bare top-level file"
 
     class UnderRoot {
         <<internal/store — one rule>>
@@ -187,11 +188,11 @@ classDiagram
 
     class Templates {
         <<internal/templates>>
-        go:embed files/docs, files/wiki, files/para
+        go:embed all:files — docs, wiki, para, skills
         List / Get / Names
         WriteTo(dir) skips existing paths
     }
-    note for Templates "init --template <name>: refused with --only and on an unknown name BEFORE any write. The hub seeds at creation (the CLI creates through POST /api/projects), so WriteTo runs only as the fallback for a hub too old to know the field, and in an already-initialized folder — the agent's post-init path. Skipping existing paths is what makes a double-seed a no-op"
+    note for Templates "The embed directive is `all:` — a plain pattern drops dot-prefixed paths silently, and the skills template IS .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. init --template <name>: refused with --only and on an unknown name BEFORE any write. The hub seeds at creation (the CLI creates through POST /api/projects), so WriteTo runs only as the fallback for a hub too old to know the field, and in an already-initialized folder — the agent's post-init path. Skipping existing paths is what makes a double-seed a no-op"
 
     class syncBlocked {
         <<gate>>
@@ -276,6 +277,7 @@ classDiagram
     Commands --> openSession : after the gate
     openSession --> MountRegistry : ResolveMount — self-heal only, never enrolls
     Commands --> Templates : init --template (seed) / init resume (agent's post-init path)
+    Commands ..> ReservedPath : init refuses an AgentConfigDir mount root
     Commands --> startSync : init
     startSync --> MountRegistry : EnrollMount — the only writer
     startSync --> PausedMarker : clears
diff --git a/architecture/overview.md b/architecture/overview.md
index 82ccfeb..35bc531 100644
--- a/architecture/overview.md
+++ b/architecture/overview.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ flowchart LR
 
     store["object store (hub-owned)<br/>internal/remote: file:// s3:// gs://<br/>blobs + per-device journals"]
 
-    tpl["internal/templates<br/>go:embed'ed starting structures<br/>(docs, wiki, para: skeleton + AGENTS.md)"]
+    tpl["internal/templates<br/>go:embed'ed starting structures<br/>(docs, wiki, para, skills: skeleton + AGENTS.md)"]
 
     docs["web/docs — docs.beardrive.ai<br/>Astro/Starlight, deploys separately"]
     cloud["cloud/ (PRIVATE nested repo, gitignored)<br/>managed beardrive.ai: swaps AuthProvider,<br/>QuotaProvider, MetaStore seams"]
diff --git a/cmd/bdrive/init.go b/cmd/bdrive/init.go
index 9d5f274..dff0b0a 100644
--- a/cmd/bdrive/init.go
+++ b/cmd/bdrive/init.go
@@ -182,6 +182,16 @@ the folder was renamed or moved.`,
 					"this device's credentials and every project's local data, so this is not a "+
 					"project folder", folder, home)
 			}
+			// Same hole one directory over, and the one a user told to "sync
+			// my skills" walks straight into with `bdrive init ~/.claude`.
+			// filepath.Base on the already-absolute folder is the whole
+			// check — no lookup that an unresolvable path could disable.
+			if config.AgentConfigDir(filepath.Base(folder)) {
+				return fmt.Errorf("%s is an agent's configuration directory: the reserved-path rule "+
+					"only covers segments BELOW a mount root, so mounting it makes settings.json, "+
+					".credentials.json and your saved sessions ordinary top-level files that sync "+
+					"to the whole team. Sync %s instead", folder, filepath.Join(folder, "skills"))
+			}
 			if projectID != "" && projectName != "" {
 				return fmt.Errorf("--project and --name are mutually exclusive")
 			}
diff --git a/cmd/bdrive/sec_fixes13_test.go b/cmd/bdrive/sec_fixes13_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c779c1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/bdrive/sec_fixes13_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+package main
+
+// Round 13 — the twin of round 7's $BDRIVE_HOME guard, one directory over.
+//
+// Round 7 closed `bdrive init $BDRIVE_HOME`. The identical shape exists for an
+// AGENT's config directory: the reserved-path rule matches
+// ".claude/settings.json" on its directory segment, and a mount whose ROOT is
+// ~/.claude leaves that file as bare "settings.json" — reserved by nothing.
+// Same for .credentials.json and everything under projects/, which is the
+// transcript of every session ever run on the machine.
+//
+// Every test asserts the SECURE behaviour. Helpers are prefixed secfx13; the
+// hub fixture and the real-binary runner are reused from sec_init_test.go.
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// secfx13Claude builds a realistic ~/.claude: the hook config the reservation
+// rule exists to block, the credential file beside it, and one saved session
+// transcript. Each carries its own sentinel so a leak names itself.
+func secfx13Claude(t *testing.T, parent string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := filepath.Join(parent, ".claude")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "projects", "some-project"), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	write := func(p, body string) {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(p)), []byte(body), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	write("settings.json", `{"hooks":{"PreToolUse":[{"command":"SECFX13-HOOK-COMMAND"}]}}`)
+	write(".credentials.json", `{"token":"SECFX13-CREDENTIAL"}`)
+	write("projects/some-project/session.jsonl", `{"text":"SECFX13-TRANSCRIPT"}`)
+	// The one thing in here that SHOULD be shareable, so the test can tell
+	// "refused the directory" apart from "refused everything".
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "skills", "example"), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "skills", "example", "SKILL.md"),
+		[]byte("# example skill\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return dir
+}
+
+// `bdrive init ~/.claude` must refuse before it writes or calls anything.
+//
+// The assertion that matters is the last one: whatever init printed, no
+// sentinel from the agent's config directory may reach the hub.
+func TestSec_Init_RefusesAnAgentConfigDirectoryAsAMountRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	e := secinitNewEnv(t, secinitHubOpts{})
+
+	claude := secfx13Claude(t, t.TempDir())
+
+	defer e.run(claude, "stop", claude)
+	out, err := e.run(claude, "init", "--name", "claude-config", "--server", e.url, "--yes")
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("init mounted an agent's configuration directory:\n%s\n"+
+			"the reserved-path rule only covers segments BELOW a mount root, so at this root "+
+			"settings.json, .credentials.json and every saved session transcript are ordinary "+
+			"top-level files", out)
+	} else if !strings.Contains(out, ".claude") {
+		t.Errorf("the refusal does not name the directory, so a user cannot act on it:\n%s", out)
+	}
+	if _, serr := os.Stat(filepath.Join(claude, ".bdrive", "config.json")); serr == nil {
+		t.Error("init wrote .bdrive/config.json before refusing; the guard must land before any file write")
+	}
+	if len(e.sentAuth()) != 0 {
+		t.Error("init reached the hub before refusing; the guard must land before any network call")
+	}
+
+	e.run(claude, "sync")
+	for key, body := range e.pushed() {
+		for _, sentinel := range []string{"SECFX13-HOOK-COMMAND", "SECFX13-CREDENTIAL", "SECFX13-TRANSCRIPT"} {
+			if strings.Contains(string(body), sentinel) {
+				t.Fatalf("%s from the agent's config directory was pushed to the hub as object %s:\n%s",
+					sentinel, key, body)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Every directory that keys a reserved hook config, under the spellings the
+// filesystem folds onto it. A guard that only knows the exact string
+// ".claude" is bypassed by the name the same directory also answers to.
+func TestSec_Init_RefusesEveryAgentConfigDirectorySpelling(t *testing.T) {
+	e := secinitNewEnv(t, secinitHubOpts{})
+
+	for _, name := range []string{".claude", ".codex", ".gemini", ".hermes", ".CLAUDE"} {
+		dir := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), name)
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "settings.json"),
+			[]byte(`{"hooks":"SECFX13-`+name+`"}`), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		out, err := e.run(dir, "init", "--name", "cfg"+name, "--server", e.url, "--yes")
+		if err == nil {
+			e.run(dir, "stop", dir)
+			t.Errorf("init mounted %s: its hook config is a top-level file at this root\n%s", name, out)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The positive case, which is the whole point of the feature this guard ships
+// with: ~/.claude/skills is what every doc tells people to sync, and
+// filepath.Base of it is "skills".
+func TestSec_Init_StillMountsTheSkillsDirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	e := secinitNewEnv(t, secinitHubOpts{})
+
+	claude := secfx13Claude(t, t.TempDir())
+	skills := filepath.Join(claude, "skills")
+
+	defer e.run(skills, "stop", skills)
+	out, err := e.run(skills, "init", "--name", "team-skills", "--server", e.url, "--yes")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("init refused %s, the directory the docs tell users to sync: %v\n%s", skills, err, out)
+	}
+	if _, serr := os.Stat(filepath.Join(skills, ".bdrive", "config.json")); serr != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("init reported success but wrote no project config: %v", serr)
+	}
+
+	// And mounting it carries the skill without carrying anything from the
+	// agent config directory above it.
+	e.run(skills, "sync")
+	var sawSkill bool
+	for key, body := range e.pushed() {
+		if strings.Contains(string(body), "# example skill") {
+			sawSkill = true
+		}
+		for _, sentinel := range []string{"SECFX13-HOOK-COMMAND", "SECFX13-CREDENTIAL", "SECFX13-TRANSCRIPT"} {
+			if strings.Contains(string(body), sentinel) {
+				t.Fatalf("mounting %s pushed %s from its parent as object %s", skills, sentinel, key)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if !sawSkill {
+		t.Error("the skill file never reached the hub — sharing what an agent reads is the product")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/config/project.go b/internal/config/project.go
index 2266b0f..b815343 100644
--- a/internal/config/project.go
+++ b/internal/config/project.go
@@ -102,6 +102,30 @@ var agentHookConfigs = map[string][]string{
 	".hermes": {"config.yaml"},
 }
 
+// AgentConfigDir reports whether a path segment names an agent's
+// configuration directory — the keys of agentHookConfigs — under the same
+// case and trailing-dot folding ReservedDir explains.
+//
+// It exists for one caller: `bdrive init` refusing such a directory as a
+// MOUNT ROOT. The reserved-path rule only covers segments BELOW a root, so
+// mounting ~/.claude leaves its settings.json a top-level file with no
+// directory segment to match on — along with .credentials.json and every
+// saved session under projects/. Only that direction leaks: a mount that
+// CONTAINS ~/.claude sees .claude/settings.json, reserved at any depth.
+//
+// Exported here rather than spelled as a literal list in cmd/bdrive for the
+// reason agentHookConfigs' own comment gives: a second copy of that list is
+// how .mcp.json drifted out of it once already.
+func AgentConfigDir(name string) bool {
+	name = strings.TrimRight(name, ". ")
+	for dir := range agentHookConfigs {
+		if strings.EqualFold(name, dir) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // agentHookFiles are the same thing at the folder ROOT, with no agent config
 // directory to key on: `.mcp.json` is Claude Code's project-scoped MCP server
 // definition. Reserved at any depth rather than at the root only, for the
diff --git a/internal/config/sec_fixes13_test.go b/internal/config/sec_fixes13_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1695270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/config/sec_fixes13_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package config_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/runbear-io/beardrive/internal/config"
+)
+
+// AgentConfigDir is the predicate `bdrive init` refuses a mount root on. It
+// answers about a single path SEGMENT, and it has to fold the same way
+// ReservedDir does or the refusal is bypassed by the spelling: APFS and NTFS
+// fold case, and NTFS/SMB strip trailing dots and spaces, so ~/.CLAUDE and
+// ~/.claude. open the same directory the guard is there to protect.
+func TestSec_AgentConfigDirFoldsTheWayTheFilesystemDoes(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, name := range []string{
+		".claude", ".codex", ".gemini", ".hermes",
+		".CLAUDE", ".Codex", // case-folded by APFS/NTFS
+		".claude.", ".claude ", ".claude..", // stripped by NTFS/SMB
+	} {
+		if !config.AgentConfigDir(name) {
+			t.Errorf("AgentConfigDir(%q) = false; the filesystem opens it as an agent "+
+				"config directory, so mounting it exposes settings.json as a top-level file", name)
+		}
+	}
+	// Not agent config directories — and crucially not ~/.claude/skills,
+	// which is the path every doc tells people to sync.
+	for _, name := range []string{"", ".", "claude", "skills", ".claudex", ".claude/skills", ".bdrive", ".git"} {
+		if config.AgentConfigDir(name) {
+			t.Errorf("AgentConfigDir(%q) = true; it is an ordinary directory name and refusing "+
+				"it would block the very folder users are told to sync", name)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The predicate must stay derived from agentHookConfigs rather than from a
+// literal list: every directory that keys a reserved hook config is one whose
+// files lose their directory segment at a mount root.
+func TestSec_AgentConfigDirCoversEveryReservedHookDir(t *testing.T) {
+	for dir, file := range map[string]string{
+		".claude": "settings.json",
+		".codex":  "hooks.json",
+		".gemini": "settings.json",
+		".hermes": "config.yaml",
+	} {
+		if !config.ReservedPath(dir + "/" + file) {
+			t.Fatalf("fixture: %s/%s should be reserved below a mount root", dir, file)
+		}
+		// The same file at a mount root has no directory segment left...
+		if config.ReservedPath(file) {
+			t.Fatalf("fixture: %q is unexpectedly reserved on its own", file)
+		}
+		// ...so the mount root itself is what has to be refused.
+		if !config.AgentConfigDir(dir) {
+			t.Errorf("AgentConfigDir(%q) = false while %s/%s is reserved: at that mount root "+
+				"%s becomes an ordinary top-level file and syncs to the whole team",
+				dir, dir, file, file)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/templates/files/skills/.claude/skills/team-conventions/SKILL.md b/internal/templates/files/skills/.claude/skills/team-conventions/SKILL.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0c9cb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/templates/files/skills/.claude/skills/team-conventions/SKILL.md
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+---
+name: team-conventions
+description: The conventions this team actually follows — naming, branching, review, and the decisions someone already made so nobody re-litigates them. Use when writing or reviewing code here, opening a PR, or when unsure "how do we do this".
+---
+
+# Team conventions
+
+Replace this file with yours. It ships as the example because it is the skill
+every team turns out to need first: the answers a new teammate — or a new agent
+session — otherwise asks for one at a time.
+
+Delete the sections that do not apply. A short skill that is true beats a
+complete one that is aspirational.
+
+## Naming
+
+- Say the shape here: files, branches, tests, whatever your team argues about.
+- One line each. If a rule needs a paragraph, it is a decision, not a naming rule.
+
+## Before opening a PR
+
+1. The command that has to pass.
+2. What the description must contain.
+3. Who reviews what.
+
+## Decisions already made
+
+Things a session should not reopen, and one line of why:
+
+- *(example)* Dates are stored UTC, formatted at the edge — mixed zones cost us a release once.
+
+## Where things live
+
+A short map of the repo or the folder, aimed at someone who has never opened
+it: where a new file goes, and what the directory nobody understands is for.
+
+---
+
+*Every teammate's agent reads this file, on their machine, on their next
+session. Keep it current — and keep secrets, tokens and anything you would not
+paste in a group chat out of it.*
diff --git a/internal/templates/files/skills/AGENTS.md b/internal/templates/files/skills/AGENTS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f33aea9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/templates/files/skills/AGENTS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# How this folder is organized
+
+This project is a **shared skill library**. The skills your agent loads live in
+`.claude/skills/`, they sync like any other file, and every teammate's agent
+picks them up on its next session — no export, no registry, no MCP server per
+client. Write a skill once, and the rest of the team's agents know it.
+
+**Sharing what an agent reads is the product; sharing what it runs is not.**
+Skills, commands, subagents and `AGENTS.md` sync. An agent's hook
+configuration files never do — a hook is a shell command, and syncing one
+would install it on your teammate's machine. That line is not a setting; it is
+the rule BearDrive enforces.
+
+## The shape
+
+| Path | What it holds |
+| -- | -- |
+| `.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` | one skill: frontmatter + instructions |
+| `.claude/skills/<name>/` | anything that skill needs beside it — scripts, references, examples |
+| `AGENTS.md` (this file) | how the library is kept |
+
+Start this project in the folder your agent already starts sessions in. If you
+want a library of skills that is not tied to one project, sync
+`~/.claude/skills` — **the `skills` directory, never `~/.claude` itself**,
+which also holds this machine's private agent state. `bdrive init` refuses the
+latter for exactly that reason.
+
+## Where a new skill goes
+
+One directory per skill under `.claude/skills/`, named for the job it does.
+Before adding one, read the existing `SKILL.md` files for a skill that already
+covers the job: extending one beats adding a near-duplicate beside it, because
+two skills that both claim a job is how an agent starts picking the wrong one.
+
+A skill earns its own directory when it has a trigger someone can state in a
+sentence. Until then it is a paragraph in this file.
+
+## What a skill file looks like
+
+Every `SKILL.md` opens with YAML frontmatter carrying `name` and
+`description`. The description is the only thing an agent reads when deciding
+whether to load the skill, so it names both the job and the words a person
+would use to ask for it. Everything below the frontmatter is the instruction
+the agent follows once it is loaded.
+
+Keep it short enough to be read in full, and concrete: the steps, the commands,
+the gotcha that cost someone an afternoon. A skill that restates general
+knowledge is one nobody's agent needed.
+
+## When something stops being true
+
+Edit the skill. Do not append a correction under the old text and do not leave
+two versions standing — a `SKILL.md` is followed literally, so it has to read
+as current instruction from top to bottom.
+
+Nothing is lost by rewriting: BearDrive keeps every version of every file, so
+`bdrive log .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` still shows what it said before and
+who changed it. Retire a skill by deleting its directory; the History view is
+the archive.
+
+## Filenames
+
+- one directory per skill, lowercase, words joined by hyphens:
+  `.claude/skills/release-checklist/`
+- the instruction file is always `SKILL.md`, capitalized, at the directory root
+- name the job, not the tool: `deploy-staging`, never `scripts-v2`
+- supporting files sit beside it with plain names: `checklist.md`, `queries.sql`
diff --git a/internal/templates/sec_drive_test.go b/internal/templates/sec_drive_test.go
index cd29576..05f9e56 100644
--- a/internal/templates/sec_drive_test.go
+++ b/internal/templates/sec_drive_test.go
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ func TestSec_Templates_GetIsTheOnlyDoorAndItIsClosed(t *testing.T) {
 // another file of this package) grew one, the two surfaces that render the
 // choice to a user would start offering it and Get would start loading it.
 func TestSec_Templates_TheRegistryHasNoWriteDoor(t *testing.T) {
-	want := []string{"docs", "wiki", "para"}
+	want := []string{"docs", "wiki", "para", "skills"}
 	if got := Names(); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
 		t.Errorf("Names() = %q, want %q — the shipped set changed; every name here is "+
 			"concatenated into an embed path and rendered as a choice on the hub", got, want)
diff --git a/internal/templates/templates.go b/internal/templates/templates.go
index 6d2c5cb..4cf3d0b 100644
--- a/internal/templates/templates.go
+++ b/internal/templates/templates.go
@@ -32,7 +32,16 @@ import (
 	"github.com/runbear-io/beardrive/internal/store"
 )
 
-//go:embed files
+// all: rather than a plain pattern, because go:embed silently drops paths
+// beginning with "." — and the skills template's whole payload is
+// .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. Without the prefix that template loads only
+// its AGENTS.md, with no error anywhere.
+//
+// The prefix also stops excluding "_"-prefixed files: nothing under files/
+// starts with "_" today, but from here on a stray _scratch.md in a template
+// directory ships into every project created from it.
+//
+//go:embed all:files
 var content embed.FS
 
 // File is one file of a template: a slash-separated path relative to the
@@ -57,6 +66,7 @@ var shipped = []struct{ Name, Title, Blurb string }{
 	{"docs", "Docs + decision records", "docs/, decisions/"},
 	{"wiki", "LLM wiki", "sources/, wiki/, index.md, log.md"},
 	{"para", "PARA", "projects/, areas/, resources/, archives/"},
+	{"skills", "Shared agent skills", ".claude/skills/"},
 }
 
 // List returns every shipped template, recommended first.
diff --git a/internal/templates/templates_test.go b/internal/templates/templates_test.go
index d398eb5..463d0f4 100644
--- a/internal/templates/templates_test.go
+++ b/internal/templates/templates_test.go
@@ -28,7 +28,16 @@ func TestShippedTemplates(t *testing.T) {
 			if f.Path == "AGENTS.md" {
 				agents = f.Content
 			}
-			haveFileIn[path.Dir(f.Path)] = true
+			// Every ancestor, not just the direct parent: the rule's own
+			// reason is that an empty directory never reaches a teammate, and
+			// an intermediate directory on the way to a file is not empty.
+			// Marking only the parent made the check stricter than its reason
+			// and failed the first template more than one level deep. What it
+			// still catches is a genuinely file-less directory, which is all
+			// it ever claimed to.
+			for d := path.Dir(f.Path); d != "." && d != "/"; d = path.Dir(d) {
+				haveFileIn[d] = true
+			}
 
 			// The same rules cleanUploadPath applies, so the hub can never
 			// reject its own content.
@@ -72,6 +81,32 @@ func TestShippedTemplates(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// The skills template is the first one whose payload is a dot-directory, and
+// go:embed drops paths beginning with "." unless the pattern is prefixed
+// `all:` — with no error anywhere. Without this test the template ships with
+// only its AGENTS.md and nothing fails.
+func TestSkillsTemplateShipsItsDotDirectory(t *testing.T) {
+	tpl, err := Get("skills")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var found string
+	for _, f := range tpl.Files {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(f.Path, ".claude/skills/") && strings.HasSuffix(f.Path, "/SKILL.md") {
+			found = f.Path
+		}
+	}
+	if found == "" {
+		var paths []string
+		for _, f := range tpl.Files {
+			paths = append(paths, f.Path)
+		}
+		t.Fatalf("the skills template carries no .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md, only %v — "+
+			"check that the embed directive is `//go:embed all:files`; a plain `files` pattern "+
+			"drops dot-prefixed paths silently", paths)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestGetUnknownNamesTheSet(t *testing.T) {
 	_, err := Get("karpathy-wiki")
 	if err == nil {
diff --git a/web/docs/astro.config.mjs b/web/docs/astro.config.mjs
index 46b3f7d..b8b675b 100644
--- a/web/docs/astro.config.mjs
+++ b/web/docs/astro.config.mjs
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
             { label: "Turn a personal brain into a company brain", slug: "use-cases/company-brain" },
             { label: "Run a personal wiki, publish part of it", slug: "use-cases/personal-wiki" },
             { label: "Carry one context across agents and devices", slug: "use-cases/multi-device" },
+            { label: "Give every agent on the team the same skills", slug: "use-cases/shared-skills" },
           ],
         },
         {
diff --git a/web/docs/src/content/docs/reference/cli.md b/web/docs/src/content/docs/reference/cli.md
index a201d07..347610a 100644
--- a/web/docs/src/content/docs/reference/cli.md
+++ b/web/docs/src/content/docs/reference/cli.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ One binary, `bdrive` — the CLI, the sync daemon, and the web server.
 |---|---|
 | `bdrive login [server-url]` | Sign this device in. Browser flow — the page names the account this terminal would act as and lets you switch before approving; `--device` forces the approval-link flow, and shells without a TTY (agents, CI, SSH) fall back to it automatically. Default server is beardrive.ai — the managed cloud, free personal workspace on signup; pass your hub URL to self-host. Switch hubs with `bdrive login <new-url>`. `--status` shows the current server and account |
 | `bdrive logout` | Sign this device out — revokes this device's token on the hub, then clears it locally. `--forget` also drops the remembered server |
-| `bdrive init [folder]` | Create or connect a project and start syncing — the mount is always exactly the folder named. Interactive on a TTY; flags (`--name`, `--project`, `--server`, `--only`, `--template`, `--yes`) for scripts. `--template docs\|wiki\|para` starts a new project from a structure instead of an empty folder. Also registers agent sync hooks for detected platforms (`--no-hooks` skips them) and a login item so sync resumes after a reboot (`--no-autostart` skips), and prints the project's hub link. Re-run to resume |
+| `bdrive init [folder]` | Create or connect a project and start syncing — the mount is always exactly the folder named. Interactive on a TTY; flags (`--name`, `--project`, `--server`, `--only`, `--template`, `--yes`) for scripts. `--template docs\|wiki\|para\|skills` starts a new project from a structure instead of an empty folder. Also registers agent sync hooks for detected platforms (`--no-hooks` skips them) and a login item so sync resumes after a reboot (`--no-autostart` skips), and prints the project's hub link. Re-run to resume |
 | `bdrive resume` | Restart the sync daemon for every project on this device that isn't paused — after a reboot, a crash, or a manual kill. Idempotent, so running it twice is harmless. This is what the login item runs |
 | `bdrive autostart [install\|uninstall]` | Show, add, or remove the login registration that runs `bdrive resume` after a reboot: a user LaunchAgent on macOS, a systemd user unit on Linux (needs systemd). `bdrive init` installs it; `--no-autostart` skips it |
 | `bdrive stop [folder]` | Stop syncing — daemon and agent sync hooks both pause. Files stay on disk; `bdrive init` resumes |
@@ -51,11 +51,12 @@ setting. Full flag bypass with `--name`, `--project`, `--template`, `--only`,
 
 A **new** project can start from a structure rather than an empty folder:
 `--template docs` (docs/, decisions/), `--template wiki` (an LLM-maintained
-wiki: sources/, wiki/, index.md, log.md) or `--template para` (projects/,
-areas/, resources/, archives/). Each one is a small directory skeleton plus the
+wiki: sources/, wiki/, index.md, log.md), `--template para` (projects/, areas/,
+resources/, archives/) or `--template skills` (a shared agent-skill library:
+`.claude/skills/`). Each one is a small directory skeleton plus the
 `AGENTS.md` that says where a new note goes, when something is archived, and
 what a good filename looks like — the instructions are the point, the folders
-are the scaffolding. On a TTY the same three starting points are offered as a
+are the scaffolding. On a TTY the same starting points are offered as a
 menu (recommended first, "empty project" last, and preselected); `--yes` and
 non-TTY never prompt and stay empty.
 
diff --git a/web/docs/src/content/docs/start/setup.md b/web/docs/src/content/docs/start/setup.md
index 6f4e70c..6bead4a 100644
--- a/web/docs/src/content/docs/start/setup.md
+++ b/web/docs/src/content/docs/start/setup.md
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ more choice: start from a structure, or from scratch. Three are shipped:
   competitor file, a company brain fed by transcripts and threads.
 - **PARA** (`projects/`, `areas/`, `resources/`, `archives/`) — sorted by how
   actionable something is, with explicit archiving.
+- **Shared agent skills** (`.claude/skills/`) — a skill library the whole
+  team's agents load, kept current by syncing. See
+  [Give every agent on the team the same skills](/use-cases/shared-skills/).
 
 Each is a small skeleton plus an `AGENTS.md` telling every agent on the team
 where a new file goes, when something is archived or superseded, and what a good
diff --git a/web/docs/src/content/docs/use-cases/shared-skills.md b/web/docs/src/content/docs/use-cases/shared-skills.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9fd1b6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/docs/src/content/docs/use-cases/shared-skills.md
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+---
+title: Give every agent on the team the same skills
+description: For the person on the team who writes the good prompts — the one whose agent always seems to know the right steps. Skills, commands and subagents sync like any other file, so what you teach your agent, everyone's agent knows.
+---
+
+You are the person on the team who writes the good skills. Yours knows the
+deploy checklist, the query that answers the recurring question, the three
+gotchas in the billing code. Everyone else's agent re-derives them every week,
+and the only way you have to share one is to paste a file into chat.
+
+## What you end up with
+
+- One folder holding the team's skills. A skill you write is on a teammate's
+  disk before their agent's next turn — no export step, no registry, no MCP
+  server to configure per client.
+- The same for `.claude/commands`, `.claude/agents`, `AGENTS.md` and
+  `CLAUDE.md`. Everything an agent *reads* travels; agent **hook**
+  configuration never does, because a hook is a shell command and syncing one
+  would install it on your teammate's machine. See
+  [What agents read](/guides/what-agents-read/).
+- Change history per skill: who edited it, when, from which device, and every
+  previous version. A skill that got worse is one `bdrive log` away from
+  showing you when.
+
+## Set it up
+
+Start your agent in the folder you want shared and give it the one paste from
+[Set up with your agent](/start/setup/). Ask for the skills structure and it
+seeds one — an `AGENTS.md` explaining how the library is kept plus an example
+`.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` to copy:
+
+> Set up BearDrive here from the `skills` template.
+
+For a project's skills, sync the project folder your agent already starts
+sessions in and the `.claude/` inside it comes along. For a library that is not
+tied to one project, sync `~/.claude/skills` — **the `skills` directory,
+never `~/.claude` itself**, which also holds this machine's credentials and
+every saved session. `bdrive init` refuses that directory for exactly that
+reason and points at `skills` instead.
+
+## The loop
+
+> Write a skill for our release checklist and put it in `.claude/skills/`.
+
+The turn ends and the skill is on the hub. Your colleague's next session picks
+it up on its own — their pull hook runs before their agent's first turn, so the
+file is simply there, on disk, the way a skill they wrote themselves would be.
+Nobody installed anything.
+
+When the checklist changes, edit the skill. Everyone is on the new one by their
+next session, and the hub's History view shows what it said before.
+
+## Use it with, not instead of
+
+A skills *registry* answers "who is allowed to publish this, and was it
+reviewed" — governance before the fact. BearDrive answers arrival: the file is
+on the machine, current, before the agent's first turn. If your team needs
+approval gates, keep them and let BearDrive be the delivery; the two do
+different jobs.
+
+## What matters for this case
+
+- **[What agents read](/guides/what-agents-read/)** — exactly which agent files
+  sync and which never do, and why the line falls there.
+- **[Shared agent memory](/guides/shared-agent-memory/)** — the `AGENTS.md`
+  that tells every teammate's agent how the library is kept.
+- **[Project files](/reference/project-files/)** — the full table of paths
+  BearDrive excludes in both directions.