What are skills
Skills are your own domain knowledge — standards, procedures, and vocabulary — that you give Cizgen so it follows your rules.
Cizgen ships general-purpose: it knows AutoCAD, but it doesn't come with the specifics of your work. Skills are how you fill that gap. A skill is a short note — in plain language — that describes a standard, a procedure, or vocabulary you want Cizgen to follow. When a skill is active, its guidance is added to the assistant for that task.
Why skills exist
Every office and discipline does things differently: layer names, symbol meanings, drawing standards, checklists, the steps a certain task should follow. Rather than baking one set of assumptions into the tool, Cizgen lets you supply that knowledge. The result is an assistant that works your way.
A skill adds knowledge — it doesn't limit what Cizgen can do. With a skill active, the assistant still has all its normal abilities; it just also follows the guidance you gave it.
What a skill looks like
A skill is a small markdown note with a name, a one-line description, and a body of guidance. For example, a skill might say "our walls go on layer A-WALL in color 7, and we never draw on layer 0." From then on, when that skill is active, Cizgen follows it.
You'll see exactly how to write one in Project skills.
The three kinds
Skills come from three places, and you can mix them:
Built-in
A small set of general skills that ship with Cizgen.
Project
Skills stored next to a specific drawing, shared with anyone who opens it.
User
Your personal skills, available in any drawing.
Next
- Using skills — how to apply a skill to a message.
- Sources and precedence — where skills come from and which one wins when names collide.
- Inspection standards — turn a plain-language standard into a reusable, automatic check.