Skills

Skills are on-demand instructions that teach Topchester a reusable workflow for one kind of task.

They are different from project instructions and generated knowledge:

• AGENTS.md controls project behavior all the time.
• skills/*/SKILL.md provides reusable workflows that activate only when selected or mentioned.
• topchester-kb/ and .agents/topchester-kb-cache/ are generated project knowledge, not skill files.

Activate skills

Use the TUI:

/skills
/skills list
/skills inspect code-review
/skill code-review review this diff

You can also mention active skills in normal prompts:

@code-review review this diff

Unknown mentions stay normal text. Multiple skill mentions are applied in mention order.