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Skills

User skills

Your personal skills, tied to your account and available in every drawing you open.

User skills are your own personal skills. Unlike project skills, which belong to a single drawing, user skills follow you — they're tied to your account and available in any drawing you open.

Use them for the way you like to work, regardless of the project: your preferred conventions, recurring procedures, and shorthand you use across jobs.

How they behave

  • They appear in the skill list with a User badge and are mentioned with / like any other skill. See Using skills.
  • They take highest precedence: if a user skill shares a name with a project or built-in skill, your version wins. See Sources and precedence.
  • They use the same format as project skills — a markdown note with a name, a description, and a body of guidance. See the skill file format.

Managing your skills

Open menu (cog) → Manage skills in the panel (or Manage skills at the bottom of the input options menu). It opens as its own view with a back arrow to return to the chat — your conversation keeps running underneath, even mid-response. The My Skills tab lists your skills and lets you:

  • CreateNew skill opens the editor on a blank template with the name, description and tags header lines ready to fill in, exactly the skill file format used for project skills. Below it, Example prompts (one per line) are optional — they're shown to anyone browsing the skill, and saved into the skill's body for you.
  • Edit — opens the same editor on the stored skill, so a skill written elsewhere can be pasted in as-is. Invalid front matter is rejected with the parser's error so you can fix it in place.
  • Delete — removes the skill from your account.
  • Share / unshare — the globe button shares the skill with the community (or takes it back). Shared skills show a Public badge, their tags, and how many times they've been downloaded.

The name line in the front matter is the skill's identity. Renaming it creates a new skill under the new name — the old one stays until you delete it.

User vs. project — which to use

Use a user skill

For personal conventions you want in every drawing, on any project.

Use a project skill

For standards that belong to one drawing and should be shared with anyone who opens it.

Because user skills override project ones, they're a handy way to try a personal tweak to a shared standard without touching the project's own skill file.

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