How Agents Use Skills

Skills self-activate based on what the principal asks for. Each one ships with a SKILL. md, a Workflows/ directory, and Tools/ with TypeScript CLIs. SkillWhat it doesAgentsCompose custom agents from Base Traits + Voice + SpecializationApertureOscillation3-pass scope oscillation (narrow, wide, synthesis)AphorismsCurated aphorism collection with theme search and CRUDApifySocial media, business, and e-commerce scraping via Apify actorsArtVisual content via Flux, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-Image-1ArXivSearch arXiv papers across CS, AI, security categoriesAudioEditorWhisper transcription, Claude classification, ffmpeg editBeCreativeVerbalized Sampling divergent ideationBitterPillEngineeringAudit AI instruction sets for over-promptingBrightData4-tier progressive scraping with auto-escalationBrowserHeadless browser automation via agent-browserContextSearch2-phase search across PAI session registry and work dirsCouncilMulti-agent debate with visible round-by-round transcriptsCreateCLITypeScript CLIs from a 3-tier template systemCreateSkillFull PAI skill development lifecycleDaemonManage the public daemon profileDelegationParallelize work via six patterns (worktree, background, etc.