Skills

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md that teaches the model how to do one kind of job well. Only its name and one-line description go into the system prompt; the body is read when the model decides to use it. That’s why dozens of skills barely touch your context.

Where skills come from

• The Plugin Market: skill collections, or the skills inside a plugin.
• Your own: see Write skills and plugins.
• Already in your project: skills in .claude/skills/ and .agents/skills/ work as they are.
• Suggested skills: turn on Settings → Personalization → Build project memory on its own, and Lyra drafts reusable routines from your recent chats. They wait under Settings → Plugins → Skills and do nothing until you enable them.

Using a skill

• Let the model pick: with a clear description, it calls the skill when it fits.
• Call it yourself: type /skill-name in the composer.
• Attach it: choose one under Plugins and skills in the @ menu to include it in this message.

Managing skills

Switch skills on and off, open or delete them under Settings → Plugins → Skills. When two share a name, the more specific one wins:

Priority	Location
1	The project’s .lyra/skills/
2	Your ~/.lyra/skills/
3	Skills from plugins
4	Built-in skills

So to change how a plugin’s skill works, put a skill with the same name in your project.

Tip

Descriptions under 40 characters get flagged. The model decides from the description alone, and if that’s vague it will never pick the skill.