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.
Use the options button
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.