Skills
Install new capabilities, or write your own in Markdown
A skill is a set of instructions an agent can pull in when a job calls for it — how to format your invoices, how to run your release checklist, how to write in your brand voice. Skills are plain Markdown, so anyone can read or write one.
Installing skills
The Skills page has a Browse tab connected to multiple sources — GitHub repositories, skill marketplaces, and a set that ships with OpenAcme. Search, inspect what a skill actually says, and install. Updates and removal are managed from the same place.
From the terminal, the same operations are available under
openacme skills — see the CLI reference.
Writing your own
A skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file:
---
name: weekly-report
description: How we write the Monday status report
---
When asked for the weekly report, structure it as...Drop the folder into ~/.openacme/skills/ and every agent can see it. The
description matters — it's how agents decide a skill is relevant before
reading the whole thing.
Scoping skills to agents
By default every agent sees every installed skill. To narrow an agent's set, edit the agent and select specific skills — useful when a skill is meant for one role only.