Skill-based reinforcement learning (SBRL) aims to quickly adapt in environments with sparse rewards by pretraining a skill-conditioned policy.A new method called AMPED has been proposed to balance both exploration and skill diversification in SBRL.AMPED introduces a gradient surgery technique during skill pretraining to manage conflicts between exploration and skill diversity objectives.AMPED also includes a skill selector module for choosing suitable skills for specific tasks, outperforming SBRL baselines in various benchmarks.