Skills

We support the open SKILLs standard (Skills). A Skill solves a single narrow task, and the agent picks it up automatically when needed.

How to add a Skill

Add a new Skill through the new chat menu, as shown in the video. A Skill is stored in the project as a set of Markdown files in the .explyt/skills folder, where SKILL.md contains metadata and the system prompt.

Writing Skills manually gives a noticeable quality boost (roughly 15–20% in internal measurements) compared to generating them automatically.

Skills from Other Tools' Dot Directories

Explyt searches for Skills not only in .explyt/skills/*/SKILL.md, but also in .*/skills/*/SKILL.md inside other dot directories, such as .claude. This allows you to reuse Skills and instructions that are already stored in configuration folders of other AI tools, without copying them to .explyt.

Recognized dot directories are highlighted in the project tree, so you can see which configuration roots Explyt uses. This is useful when a team works with different AI assistants and does not want to duplicate Skills for each tool.

Manual Skill Invocation via / Commands

Skills can be invoked manually via / commands directly in the chat. By default, Skills are triggered automatically when the agent decides they are needed. However, you can explicitly invoke a specific Skill, for example /refactor, to guarantee the desired scenario is executed.

This is useful when you know exactly which Skill you want to apply and don't want to rely on the agent's automatic selection — for example, when launching a PR review or generating tests from a specific template.