Skills overview

A skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file with frontmatter metadata and markdown instructions.

Skill sources

Vilot loads skills from:

1. Built-in plugin skills under skills/
2. User skill directories from settings
3. Skills installed from GitHub URL into the user skills directory

Matching behavior

Only one skill is active per message.

Priority order:

1. Slash command match (/compose, /summarize, ...)
2. Trigger keyword match from triggers

When matched, the skill instruction body is prepended for that request.

Enable/disable behavior

In Settings → Extensions → Loaded skills, each skill has a toggle.

• Enabled: available to matching and slash autocomplete
• Disabled: excluded from matching and slash list

Slash commands

Slash commands are not a separate registry.

• Skill manager is the source of truth
• Chat input / autocomplete reads loaded skills with slashCommand

Install from URL

Use Install skill from URL with a GitHub blob or raw URL that points to SKILL.md.