Using skills

Apply a skill to a message with a /mention, the / autocomplete, or the skill button — and combine several at once.

You choose which skills apply per message. There are three ways to do it, and they all produce the same thing: a /skill-name mention in your prompt.

Three ways to add a skill

Type it inline

Type / followed by the skill name anywhere in your message, e.g.

Draw the layout following /our-layer-standard.

Use the autocomplete

As soon as you type /, a list of matching skills pops up. Keep typing to filter, then pick one with the arrow keys and Enter (or click it). Cizgen inserts the mention for you.

Click the options button (the square-slash icon) next to the prompt box. It lists every available skill with a badge showing where it comes from — User, Project, or Built-in. Pick one to drop its mention into your message.

Combine several skills

You can mention more than one skill in a single message, and the mention stays in your text so you can refer to each one:

Process /survey-notes and check the result against /site-standard.

A /word that doesn't match a real skill is simply ignored, so file paths or URLs with slashes won't accidentally trigger a skill.

Cizgen can also find skills on its own

Even if you don't mention one, Cizgen can discover and load a relevant skill by itself when a task calls for it. Naming a skill with / just makes sure a specific one is applied.

What "active" means

An active skill applies to that message and the run it starts. For the next message, add the mentions again if you still want them — this keeps each request scoped to exactly the guidance you intend.

Modes are different from skills

For postures that span many messages — like a tutoring session — Cizgen has chat modes (the Agent / Tutor selector next to the tools button). A mode applies to every message until you switch it, and Tutor mode activates the built-in autocad-tutor skill for you. Skills stay per-message and combine on top of whatever mode is active.