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Skills

Community skills

Share your skills with other Cizgen users and adopt theirs — with full-content transparency before anything is copied.

Community skills are skills users share with each other. Anyone can share a skill they own; anyone can browse, read, and adopt what others shared — nothing is bought or sold. Open it from menu (cog) → Manage skills → Community.

Browsing and adopting a skill

Search by name, filter by tag, and sort by most downloaded / recently added / recently updated. Open a skill to inspect it — the detail view always shows the full raw markdown — exactly the text that would be injected into your prompt — so you can review a skill before adopting it. From there:

Add to my skills

Copies the skill into your account. It becomes a regular user skill: yours to edit, available in every drawing.

Save to project

Writes a copy into the active drawing's .cizgen/skills folder, so anyone who opens the project gets it. Needs a saved drawing.

If you already have a skill (or the project already has a file) with the same name, Cizgen asks before overwriting it.

Tags and example prompts

Publishers can add free-form tags (there's no fixed category list — the tags people actually use become the filters you see) and a few example prompts showing how the skill is meant to be invoked. Both are optional and shown on the skill's detail view.

Public web pages

Every shared skill also gets a public, no-login page at cizgen.app/skills/<name> — the same full-content transparency as the in-app detail view, so you can read a skill (or send someone a direct link to it) without opening Cizgen. cizgen.app/skills lists and filters everything shared, the same way the Community tab does. Adopting a skill from there still requires opening the app.

Copies are snapshots

Both actions make a copy — nothing stays linked to the sharer:

  • The copy keeps working even if the sharer edits, unshares, or deletes the original.
  • Sharer updates are not synced automatically. To pick up a newer version, open the community list again and re-add it (confirming the overwrite).
  • Each copy is stamped with marketplace_id and marketplace_updated_at frontmatter, so a future update indicator can compare your snapshot against the source.

Sharing your skills

In My Skills, hit the globe button on a skill to share it. There is no approval step — the skill is visible to everyone the moment you confirm, and you'll see it in the Community tab marked by you (exactly what other users see, minus the copy button). Sharing is live: later edits to the skill are immediately what new visitors see and copy. Unshare (or delete) whenever you like — existing copies other users made are unaffected.

Sharing makes the skill's full content and your account name publicly visible — findable through search engines, not just inside Cizgen. Unsharing removes the public page; copies others already made are unaffected.

A skill is instructions for the agent, and the community list is open — treat a skill you didn't write like advice from a stranger. Always read the full content before adopting it; that's why the detail view shows the exact markdown, never a summary.

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