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

# Load Assets • AI Agent SDK

> load_assets: Load asset paths from skill's assets/ directory (Level 3).

# load\_assets

Method

> This is a method of the [**SkillLoader**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/SkillLoader.md) class in the [**loader**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/loader.md) module.

Load asset paths from skill's assets/ directory (Level 3).

Note: For binary assets, only paths are returned, not contents.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def load_assets(skill: LoadedSkill) -> dict
```

## Parameters

**skill** `LoadedSkill` *required*

LoadedSkill instance

### Returns

**Returns** `dict`

Dict mapping asset names to their paths

## Uses

* `assets_dir.exists`
* `assets_dir.is_dir`
* `assets_dir.iterdir`
* `asset_file.is_file`

## Used By

* [`SkillLoader.load_all_resources`](../functions/SkillLoader-load_all_resources)

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/skills/loader.py#L179)
>
> `praisonaiagents/skills/loader.py` at line 179


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