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A skill is a single SKILL.md file with a YAML frontmatter header,
discovered from well-known directories at startup. Two integration
points:
1. The system prompt gains a short manifest listing each skill's
name + one-line description. Cheap (a few dozen tokens).
2. A built-in `skill` tool lets the model load any one skill's
full body on demand and follow the instructions there.
The on-demand-load model keeps token usage cheap: only the
manifest goes into every request; the body is fetched as a tool
result the one or two turns the model actually needs it.
Discovery (priority order — first match wins per name):
./.zot/skills/<name>/SKILL.md project (native)
$ZOT_HOME/skills/<name>/SKILL.md global (native)
./.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md project (claude-compat)
~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md global (claude-compat)
./.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md project (agent-compat)
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md global (agent-compat)
Compat paths are deliberate: any SKILL.md written for a related
ecosystem works in zot unchanged.
Frontmatter fields:
name optional; defaults to directory name
description required; shown in the system prompt
allowed-tools optional list; informational (no enforcement)
permissions optional per-tool patterns; informational
allowed-tools and permissions are parsed but not enforced this
version. They render in the body so the model can self-regulate.
What landed:
- internal/skills: discovery + frontmatter parsing (no yaml dep —
hand-rolled subset for the limited shape skills use), the on-
demand `skill` tool implementing core.Tool, system-prompt
addendum, FindByName lookup helper. Real unit tests cover all
five locations + dedup priority + parser corner cases.
- internal/agent/build.go: Resolve discovers skills, registers the
skill tool when at least one was found, appends the manifest to
the system prompt's append list. Resolved gains a SkillTool
field so the tui can read the live set.
- internal/agent/modes/skills_dialog.go: /skills picker with two
modes — list view (cursor + paging) and body view (markdown-
rendered with scroll). Refreshes its snapshot each open via
cfg.SkillSnapshot so edits to a SKILL.md during a session are
reflected immediately.
- /skills slash command + entry in slashCatalog.
- examples/skills/code-review and examples/skills/test-fix as
starter skills demonstrating procedural style + frontmatter.
- docs/skills.md: full reference covering discovery, frontmatter,
inspection, authoring tips, and ecosystem compat.
End-to-end verified against the live anthropic backend:
prompt: "What skills do you have available?"
-> "- code-review\n- test-fix"
prompt: "Use the skill tool to load the code-review skill,
then summarize step 1."
-> [tool_call] skill({"name":"code-review"})
-> [tool_result] body returned
-> "Step 1 is to establish what changed by running git status..."
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