Skills management

Skills are reusable playbooks (SKILL.md) the agent loads with load_skill — office workflows, audits, custom procedures.

Built-in Office skills

Zagens ships bundled skills under the runtime assets (e.g. office-weekly-report, office-customer-quote). Office empty-state cards map to these skills.

See the built-in skills index and P0 demos.

User skills directory

Custom skills live in ~/.zagens/skills/<name>/SKILL.md.

Desktop UI

• Sidebar Tasks — background tasks; create / import / install skills; expand cards for execution timeline
• Settings → Skills — same skills panel (AutomationPanel)
• Settings → Scheduled tasks — RRULE automations (v0.7.2+) — see Scheduled tasks

Authoring tips

• Keep steps numbered and explicit about inputs (inbox/, data/).
• Declare expected output format (DOCX, XLSX) and deliverables/ path.
• Test with a small fixture workspace before production data.

skill-creator and draft_skill

The bundled skill-creator skill helps the agent draft new skills interactively (Code or Office).

Since v0.8.6, the agent can also write drafts via draft_skill to .zagens/skill-drafts/; promote with CLI:

zagens skill drafts
zagens skill promote <draft-id>

Review Gate-as-Code / harness checklists before promote; security notes live in the product repo docs/harness/h4-draft-skill-security.md.

Related: MCP · Skills index · Gate-as-Code · Office workspace