Concepts

Agent Skills

Pro+Agent Available on the Pro+Agent tier.

Think of skills as reference books on the agent’s shelf. When you ask the agent to check your magic system for contradictions, it does not start from scratch — it pulls down a skill that knows how to systematically audit interconnected rules, cross-reference definitions, and flag inconsistencies. Without that skill, the agent is still capable. With it, the agent knows how to approach the problem.

Skills specialize the agent for specific creative tasks. A skill for character consistency checking works differently from a skill for timeline auditing, which works differently from a skill for generating location descriptions in a particular voice. Each one shapes how the agent thinks about — and responds to — your request.

What skills contain

A skill is a package of related materials that the agent draws on when working. At a user level, a skill includes:

A description of what the skill is for and when to use it
An approach — the strategy the agent follows when the skill is active
Templates that structure the agent’s output for specific tasks
Examples that anchor the agent’s understanding of tone, format, or domain conventions

Not every skill uses all of these. A brainstorming skill might lean heavily on approach and examples. A structured audit skill might rely on templates that ensure nothing gets missed. The agent assembles whatever the skill provides into a coherent working method.

How the agent chooses a skill

You do not need to select skills manually (though you can). When you send a message, the agent evaluates your request against available skills and loads only what is needed. Ask “review my magic system rules for contradictions” and the agent recognizes this as a consistency-checking task, pulls in the relevant skill, and proceeds with that skill’s approach.

If no installed skill matches your request, the agent falls back to its general capabilities — still useful, but without the specialized approach a skill would provide.

You can also pin a skill to a conversation. This tells the agent to use that skill’s approach for every message in the thread, which is useful when you are working through a long editing pass or a multi-page audit.

Skill sources

Skills come from two places: the marketplace and your own workspace.

Marketplace skills

The skill marketplace is a curated catalog of skills built for creative worldbuilding workflows. Browse by category — character development, world consistency, narrative structure, setting generation — and install what fits your process.

Installed skills are cached locally for offline use. When you reconnect, the agent checks for updates and refreshes its local copies. You can review, disable, or uninstall marketplace skills at any time from Settings → Agent → Skills.

Custom skills

This is where skills become personal. Describe what you want — “a skill that knows my magic system rules and checks new content against them” — and the agent builds it for you. You provide the domain knowledge; the agent structures it into a working skill.

Custom skills live in your workspace. A skill built for tracking the political factions of the Iron Accord stays with that workspace; a skill built for your preferred prose editing style can be stored at the account level and travel with you across projects.

Building a custom skill does not require any programming. You describe the task in natural language, provide examples if you have them, and iterate with the agent until the skill works the way you want.

Managing skills

Open Settings → Agent → Skills to see everything installed. From here you can:

Browse the marketplace to discover new skills
Enable or disable individual skills without uninstalling them
Edit custom skills to refine their behavior over time
Delete custom skills you no longer need

Disabled skills remain installed but are excluded from the agent’s selection process. This is useful when you want to temporarily narrow the agent’s focus — disable your worldbuilding skills while working on a pure prose editing pass, for example.