skill-preloading

name	skill-preloading
description	Reference for the two-tier skill loading system — preloaded vs category-gated skills, how to add/remove preloaded skills, and the external-services category layout.

Skill Preloading System

How It Works

• preloaded: true in SKILL.md frontmatter → skill appears in system prompt with full description
• Without preloaded: true → skill hidden, browsable via skills_list(category=...)
• Category descriptions come from each folder's DESCRIPTION.md (frontmatter description: field)
• Description truncation was removed from agent/skill_utils.py

Current Preloaded Skills (23)

recall, writer, plan, skill-creator, skill-preloading, render-cli, grok-search, mcporter, babysit-pr, ralph-mode, firecrawl, stably-cli, porkbun-cli, copilot-money-cli, appfigures-cli, bird-twitter, apple-search-ads, dataforseo-cli, google-ads-cli, meta-ads-cli, prometheus-cli, last30days, dogfood

To Add a New Preloaded Skill

Add preloaded: true to the SKILL.md frontmatter:

---
name: my-skill
preloaded: true
description: What this skill does
---

External Services Category

All CLI-based third-party service skills live in external-services/. Renamed: copilot-money→copilot-money-cli, appfigures→appfigures-cli, dataforseo→dataforseo-cli, google-ads→google-ads-cli, meta-ads→meta-ads-cli, prometheus→prometheus-cli, porkbun→porkbun-cli (merged 6 sub-skills).

Implementation

• Runtime: agent/prompt_builder.py on live-config branch (exiao/hermes-agent#6)
• Skills: main branch (exiao/skills#115)