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

Creating and editing skills

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.

To create a new skill:

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

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.

Deleting a skill

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