Skills

A skill is procedural guidance — a curated way of doing a particular kind of work, selected for a task, stack, phase, or review gate. Skills are how-to knowledge, not source evidence: they tell the agent how to approach a job, not what your code says.

Selected, not dumped

AgentRail does not paste every skill into every prompt. It resolves the skills relevant to the task at hand and includes only those in the context pack. That keeps the pack small and the guidance on-target.

Listing skills

agentrail skills list

Shows the skills available in the current project.

Resolving skills for a task

agentrail skills resolve "convert a PRD into GitHub issues"

skills resolve returns the skills that match a task description — the same selection the engine makes when it compiles a context pack. Use it to see which procedural guidance a given piece of work would pull in.