Skills

Skills is a built-in Agent Zero plugin that manages current-chat skill loading and layered skill visibility, including profile-level policy from Agent Editor.

What It Does

• loads selected skills into current-chat history
• hides noisy skills from the model-facing available catalog, skill search, and load access
• shows loaded skills without offering removal, because loaded skill bodies are part of chat history
• lets users hide or show skills live per conversation
• supports global/project settings plus profile-level Agent Editor visibility policy
• links directly to the built-in Skills list
• links directly to the active project's Skills section when a project is active

Why This Exists

Agent Zero already supports loading skills dynamically with skills_tool, and already has great built-in skill management surfaces. What it did not have was a lightweight way to use that same history-backed skill loading from the Skills screen.

Skills fills that gap as a bundled built-in plugin. The shared skill discovery and loaded-skill ledger live in helpers/skills.py, and this plugin focuses on catalog UI, chat loading, and visibility.

Notes

• selected skills are appended to current-chat history using the same metadata shape as skills_tool
• loaded skills are not removable from the UI; future context compaction may reattach their bodies from the loaded-skill ledger
• hidden skills are stored as control data, not injected into the prompt
• hidden skill paths are stored in normalized /a0/... form so configs stay portable across development and Docker-style layouts
• if a configured hidden skill is not visible in the current agent scope, it is skipped quietly instead of breaking catalog builds
• profile visibility uses sparse Allowed/Blocked exceptions with an explicit default for future skills; allowing a skill does not load or pin it