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, adescription, and a body of guidance. See the skill file format.
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.
Project skills
Store skills next to a drawing in a .cizgen/skills folder so everyone who opens it gets the same standards. Includes the skill file format.
Inspection standards
Turn a plain-language standard or checklist into a reusable, automatic drawing check — and get a pass/fail report you can save and share.