Skills

Skills are saved sets of instructions that Odin applies automatically during agent sessions. When skills are enabled, they are injected silently into every agent task — Odin reads them and applies them when relevant, without you needing to invoke them explicitly.

What is a skill?

A skill is a named instruction set you write once and Odin uses forever. Each skill has:

• A name — used to identify it in the Skills editor
• A description — one line explaining when it applies
• Content — the instructions Odin follows

Examples of useful skills:

• A code-review skill that focuses Odin on correctness and performance over style
• A writing-coach skill that asks Odin to improve clarity and tone
• A sql-tutor skill that emphasizes query optimization and explains trade-offs
• A commit-messages skill that formats git commit messages your preferred way

Built-in skills

Odin ships with a set of default skills (the exact set depends on your plan). For example:

• screenshot-to-file — captures the current screen and saves it to the desktop as a time-stamped image. Just ask Odin to “take a screenshot” and it uses this skill.
• web-search — lets Odin research the web as part of a task.

These are a good template to learn from — open one in the Skills editor to see how it’s written.

Creating skills

There are two ways to create a skill.

The easy way — ask Odin

The simplest approach is to just ask Odin to make the skill for you. Make sure the mode selector is on Auto, then describe what you want:

“Create a new skill where, whenever I ask you to do research and save a report, you always save it as a PDF instead of a markdown file.”

Odin writes the skill and saves it automatically — you’ll see the new skill appear in the Skills editor, fully formatted.

Manually in the editor

Open the panel and click Skills to open the Skills editor window. The left pane lists all your skills. The right pane is a text editor.

1. Click + in the top-right of the skills list.
2. Write your skill content in the editor. The name comes from the name: field in the frontmatter.
3. Click Save.

Tip

You can also draft a skill in your favorite AI tool (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) — paste one of your existing skills as a template and ask it to write a new one in the same shape, then add it with the + button.

Skills are ideal for repetitive tasks where Odin isn’t getting something quite the way you want. Explain the behavior you’d prefer once, save it as a skill, and Odin applies it automatically next time.

Skill format:

---
name: code-review
description: Focus on correctness and performance when reviewing code
---

## When to use

Apply this when the user shares code for review or asks you to look at an implementation.

## Workflow

1. Check for correctness bugs first — wrong logic, edge cases, null handling.
2. Flag performance issues — unnecessary loops, N+1 queries, large allocations.
3. Note style issues last — naming, formatting, verbosity.
4. Be direct and specific. Reference exact line numbers or function names.
5. Don't suggest rewrites unless there's a genuine problem.

Enabling skills

Skills can be toggled on or off globally in Settings. When enabled, all saved skills are injected into agent sessions. When disabled, none are.

Note

Skills are also built automatically by background agents. When an agent discovers a useful pattern or workflow, it can write it as a skill so Odin remembers it for the future.

Deleting a skill

Select the skill in the Skills editor and click Delete, then confirm.