Let Snotra write a skill

When you have explained a way of working once — how you want protocols written, what a good review covers — you can keep it as a skill. Snotra writes it for you.

What you need

• An open folder; the skill is written into it.
• The system skill snotra-skill-authoring, which is on by default. It tells the model where a skill goes and how it has to look.

Steps

1. Ask for it in the chat: Make a skill out of this: how to advise on what to sow next. Or, for an existing one: Add the herb spiral to the sowing-advice skill.
2. Snotra writes .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the open folder, and further files next to it if the skill needs them. Approve the changes on the cards.
3. Open Settings › Skills, tick the new skill and click Apply.

What happens

• Snotra checks every SKILL.md it writes right away, the way the skill list does: front matter, name and description, the name equal to the folder. A broken one goes back to the model to be fixed.
• The tool log shows the write as part of the skill: 1 skill file written.
• The new skill appears under Settings › Skills by itself, and like every skill from a folder it stays off until you tick it.

Use it in every folder

Snotra writes skills only into the open folder. Your own skills in ~/.snotra/skills/ and the system skills are read-only for every tool — so no instruction hidden in some project can plant a skill that then turns up everywhere.

To use a skill in every folder, move its folder from .agents/skills/ to ~/.snotra/skills/ yourself, in your file manager. Then tick it once more under Settings › Skills.

If it doesn’t work

• No folder is open. Snotra then shows the SKILL.md in the chat instead of writing it; save it yourself.
• Snotra does not write the skill the way you expect. snotra-skill-authoring may be switched off under Settings › Skills.