Delete the empty active-skills prompt extension and its unused prompt template now that selected skills are loaded through chat history instead of protocol. Stop clearing legacy loaded_skills keys from protocol/extras in the loaded-skills hook while keeping history reattachment for compacted skill bodies.
Switch the Skills catalog UI/API from scope-wide prompt pins to current-chat history loading, and remove user-facing removal of loaded skills.
Disable legacy active-skill prompt injection so forgotten scope config no longer inflates new-chat prompts.
Introduce a new prompt "protocol" separate from extras: add LoopData.protocol_temporary and protocol_persistent, include protocol contents before message history during prompt construction, and clear temporary protocol data each turn. Add helper _build_context_message to render protocol/extras, update response input conversion to include protocol, and move project instructions & active/loaded skills injection into protocol. Update docs, prompts, plugin metadata, the SkillsTool message, and add tests to verify protocol placement and behavior.
Add comprehensive file-level DOX documentation across the repo and update directory AGENTS.md indexes. Many new `*.py.dox.md` files were added under api, helpers, tools, plugins, extensions, webui, and other dirs to document endpoint purpose, ownership, runtime contracts, work guidance, and verification. Several AGENTS.md files were created or updated (agents profiles, api, docker, extensions, helpers, plugins, skills, webui components, etc.) to list child DOX files and clarify documentation/work guidance. Also add example and bundled profile DOX files (agent0, default, developer, hacker, researcher) and minor updates to helpers/dirty_json.py and its tests. These changes improve on-disk documentation coverage and establish the convention that each direct runtime file should have a matching `*.dox.md` describing its contracts and verification steps.
- replace the Visible/Pinned mode switch with a single continuous skills view
- show pinned skills first, then all skills below a divider with line-based rows instead of boxed cards
- keep pinning on the checkbox and move hide/show into an inline eye control for each skill
- add max_active_skills to the _skills plugin config and expose it in the config UI
- enforce the scoped cap consistently in skills runtime, catalog responses, and chat activation
- cover raised and lowered cap behavior with focused skills runtime tests
- make the active Visible/Pinned state read as active instead of grey
- replace the bordered toggle wrapper with a simpler slash-separated control
- remove the visible/hidden count label and its unused store helpers
Let users hide skills from the model-facing available catalog through the chat Skills selector while keeping pinned skill injection as a separate mode.
Hidden skills are filtered from skill listing, search, loading, relevant recall, and loaded-skill prompt injection, with chat-level show/hide overrides and persistent default hidden-skill config support.
Remove dynamically loaded skills when they are deactivated from the Skills selector. Treat skill names and paths as aliases so scoped defaults, chat overrides, and loaded-skill state resolve consistently.
Unify skill handling layer and raise the active skills cap to 20.
The Skills UI now presents a simpler checklist-style flow for selecting active
skills, with live chat activation and saved defaults using the same visible list.
Skill contents can be opened in a read-only Ace viewer via the existing markdown
modal.
Added a builtin plugin that you can open from the chat input plus button menu, which shows you a list of skills that you can directly activate in the current context/project.
Default configs allow users to start over with skills already active, instead of losing time and tokens asking Agent Zero to do it.
Update prompt for manual skill selector
add thumbnail for _skills builtin plugin
