Skills

Skills are Markdown files stored in agents/main/skills/. On each turn, the agent injects relevant skills into its system prompt — giving it domain knowledge, formatting rules, or step-by-step workflows without needing a restart.

Two loading modes

Always-inject (default): skills without frontmatter are included on every turn.

Trigger-based: skills with frontmatter are only injected when a trigger word appears in the message.

---
always: false
triggers: [backlog, report, schedule]
description: Daily backlog report formatting
---

# Morning Backlog Report

When the user asks for a backlog report, format it as...

Managing skills via chat

"create a skill called morning-report that formats daily standup notes"
"list all skills"
"read the morning-report skill"
"delete the morning-report skill"

Or use the tools directly: skill_list, skill_read, skill_write, skill_delete.

Hot-loaded

Skills take effect immediately — no restart needed. The agent reads the file on the next turn.

When to use a skill

• You've explained the same workflow to the agent more than once
• You want consistent formatting for a specific type of output
• You have domain knowledge the agent should always have available