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Skills, the gestures you teach it

A skill is a gesture you teach once and reuse forever: a chain of steps the AI can perform from the chat. Two are built in, and you can compose your own without writing code.

The built-ins​

The Skills window: built-in skills and the New skill button

  • Consult a web page: fetches the clean full text of a URL so the AI can read and synthesize it. Used when you paste a link or ask about a precise page.
  • Write a note into a vault: creates a Markdown file inside a vault (optionally a sub-folder) and registers that folder for vectorization. This is how a synthesis gets persisted into memory.

Compose your own​

+ New skill opens the composer: a title, inputs, and numbered steps that chain into each other. Each step can use what the previous ones produced, with {{inputs.x}} and {{steps.0.content}} placeholders.

The skill composer: inputs and chained steps

The template is three steps, URL → synthesize → save:

  1. Fetch URL reads the page from {{inputs.url}}
  2. Synthesize (AI) turns the page into a clear, structured Markdown note
  3. Write note saves it into the vault you choose

From then on, one gesture turns any article into a memory. Skills write into vaults through the same governed doors as everything else, so a skill can't reach what you haven't allowed.