Skills

A skill is a set of instructions added to the agent's system prompt: how to use Kimo's tools, a house style, a checklist. Type / in the composer to open the Skills menu.

• ↵ inserts the top row's /name into your message: that skill applies to this one turn.
• ⌥↵ turns the top row's skill on or off for every following turn.

Typing after / filters the menu, and both keys act on the first row it shows.

Put each skill in its own folder under ~/.kimo/skills/, as a SKILL.md that starts with front matter:

---
name: brand-voice
description: Copy rules and type scale for Acme product pages.
---
 
Headlines are sentence case, at most eight words.
Use the `type/display` variables for headlines and never hard-code font sizes.

• name uses lowercase letters, digits and dashes (up to 64 characters), and can't reuse a built-in skill's name.
• description is required; the menu shows it.
• The file must be a regular UTF-8 file of at most 256 KiB inside that folder.

Kimo watches the folder, so a new or edited skill shows up in the menu (under Yours · ~/.kimo/skills) without a restart. A skill with a problem is listed with its error. In the desktop app, Open skills folder at the bottom of the menu shows ~/.kimo/skills in Finder, Explorer or your file manager, creating it first if needed. User skills aren't available in the browser, so the button isn't shown there.