agent-zero/plugins/_skills/README.md
Alessandro c9eadf400a add built-in Skills selector plugin
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
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Skills

Skills is a built-in Agent Zero plugin that lets you pin skills into prompt extras for a chosen scope.

What It Does

  • activates selected skills for the current plugin scope
  • injects those skills into prompt extras on every turn
  • supports global and project scoped configurations without agent-profile variants
  • 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 make a few skills feel "always on" for a specific scope without modifying the core prompt system.

Skills fills that gap as a bundled built-in plugin.

Notes

  • keep the active list short because every selected skill is injected into prompt extras every turn
  • this plugin enforces the same extras cap as the core skills_tool: at most 5 active skills
  • selected skills are stored in normalized /a0/... form so configs stay portable across development and Docker-style layouts
  • if a configured skill is not visible in the current agent scope, it is skipped quietly instead of breaking the prompt build