Skills
Skills.
36 skills organized into nine categories. Core skills ship with the baseline; third-party skills are vendored from external sources with their licenses preserved.
§ I
Skills versus subagents
A skill is a code-loaded capability that runs in main context. It has access to the current conversation, prior tool results, and the user's screenshots.
Skills compose: one skill can invoke another, and most phase skills mandatorily invoke a sub-skill (for example, every code-generation step invokes code-structure).
A subagent is different. Subagents run in isolated context with only a Task brief. The baseline ships exactly one subagent (swarm-worker) for parallel execution of pre-decided recipes. Every other capability is a skill in main context.
§ II
By category
Skills group by what they produce or which phase they belong to. Two reference pages cover the full set.
01 · Core
Core skills
The 36 skills that ship with the baseline. Phase skills, artifact drafters, phase workers, spec helpers, orchestration, memory, audit, alt tracks.
02 · Third-party
Third-party skills
Vendored skills from outside this repository. Licenses are preserved alongside; behavior is not edited. The pattern, with one worked example.
§ III
The mandatory invocation rule
Five execution skills mandatorily invoke a sub-skill. The pairings are not conventions; they are constitutional (Article II).
| Skill | Mandatory sub-skill | Conditional |
|---|---|---|
| scenario | code-structure | none |
| implement | code-structure | context7 for any third-party API |
| verify | none (mechanical) | none |
| design-ui | impeccable | none |
| prose | humanizer (always) | copywriting / documentation / technical-tutorials by register |