Skills

Gustavo AmbrozioMemory & ContextNew
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See every skill a thread's agent can use, where each one comes from and what it says, and add one to the chat from the panel or composer. A Skills tab in the thread's side panel groups them by origin — the project, the repository, your personal folder, an admin folder, a Claude Code or Codex plugin, or bb itself — and shows each one's SKILL.md, rendered, with its path on disk. Claude Code, Codex and Hermes threads have their skill folders read the way that agent reads them, in worktrees and on other enrolled machines too, so a name defined twice is listed once, under the copy the agent uses. Add to chat puts the skill's command at the start of the message box and sends nothing, and a Skills button with a live count opens the same list from the composer. Threads on other providers list bb's own skills and what bb's / menu offers. Needs bb 0.44 or later, and no account, key or network access.

Overview

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A skill's name in the / menu says little: which copy will the agent load, where does it live, and what does it tell the agent to do? Skills answers that for one thread at a time, next to the conversation.

What you get

  • A Skills tab in each thread's side panel, listing every skill that thread's agent can use, grouped by origin: the project, the repository, your personal folder, an admin folder, a Claude Code or Codex plugin, or bb itself.
  • Each skill's SKILL.md, rendered, with its path on disk and a button to copy it.
  • Add to chat: puts the skill's command at the start of the thread's message box, with the cursor after it for any arguments. Nothing is sent until you send it.
  • A Skills button in the composer with a live count, opening the same list in a popover (a sheet on a narrow window), and a command palette entry for the tab.

How it finds them

  • Claude Code, Codex and Hermes threads have their skill folders read the way each agent reads them: from the thread's directory up to the repository root, then your home folders, plugins last. A name defined twice is listed once, under the copy the agent uses.
  • Claude Code plugins installed for a repository are listed in its worktrees too, as Claude Code applies them there.
  • Hermes's archived and organisation-mirror folders are left out, as Hermes leaves them out.
  • Every thread also lists the skills bb adds to all threads, and what bb's / menu offers that has no file, such as an agent's built-in commands.
  • The files are read on the machine the thread runs on, including another enrolled machine.

What it needs

  • bb 0.44 or later. No account, key or network access.

Limits

  • Built-in skills that live inside an agent's program have a description but no file to show.
  • Skills on other providers come only from bb's own list and bb's / menu.
  • Codex skills switched off in Codex's settings, and Claude Code plugins switched off for a project, are still listed.
  • Hermes profiles, and Hermes or Codex homes moved by a setting the agent alone sees, are not followed.

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