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Skills

A skill provides reference documentation for a specific tool or service. Skills are used by tasks to accomplish their goals. Each skill lives in its own directory under skills/ and is defined by a SKILL.md file.

File Structure

skills/
  <skill-name>/
    SKILL.md

SKILL.md Format

A skill file has two parts: frontmatter (YAML metadata) and body (Markdown documentation).

Frontmatter

---
name: skill-name
description: What this skill does and when to use it.
---

Fields

Field Type Required Description
name string yes Identifier for the skill.
description string yes What the skill does and when to use it. Should include trigger phrases (e.g., "Use when the user wants to...").

Body

The body contains reference documentation for the tool or service. The structure varies depending on the type of skill, but typically includes:

  • Title# Skill Name
  • Overview — What the tool is and how it works.
  • Usage — How to invoke the tool (endpoints, CLI synopsis, etc.).
  • Parameters/Options — Detailed reference tables.
  • Examples — Common usage patterns and recipes.
  • Source — Links to official documentation and repositories.

Existing Skills

Skill Type Description
whisper.cpp HTTP API Speech-to-text transcription via a local whisper.cpp server.
ffmpeg CLI Audio/video processing, conversion, and analysis.