// skills
Skills — your team's playbook, executed by AI
Skills are reusable instruction sets that teach Claude how to handle a specific CygNet task. Triggered by slash commands. Built on the same portable Agent Skills standard Anthropic published as an open format — so a skill that solves a CygNet problem in Narya can be invoked through other Skills-aware clients too. The user-facing unit of reusable knowledge, backed by WAIS underneath.
// anatomy
What a skill is
- YAML frontmatter — name, description (with trigger phrases), category, metadata. Loaded into the system prompt at all times — about 50 tokens per skill.
- Markdown body — step-by-step instructions, tool call guidance, common mistakes to avoid, example outputs. Loaded on demand when the skill is invoked.
- Optional references/ — additional documentation files loaded only if Claude needs deeper context during execution. Three-tier progressive disclosure keeps token usage tight.
// built-in
CygNet skills shipped today
These encode domain knowledge the LLM gets wrong without explicit guidance. Each one was created because a real CygNet task tripped the system enough times to deserve a permanent fix.
Your team's skills, on disk
Create new skills directly from Narya Command. Edit the SKILL.md in the built-in editor. Stored in %LocalAppData%\NaryaCommand\skills\. User skills override built-in skills by name, so your team's naming conventions and patterns take precedence over our defaults.
The flywheel: use → correction → lesson → skill instruction
- Scoped retrieval. Skill metadata scopes WAIS retrieval. When /audit-alarms activates, WAIS pulls site-specific alarm conventions and relevant lessons.
- Execution feedback. Skill invocations feed evidence and corrections back to WAIS, tagged with the skill name.
- Lesson promotion. When a WAIS lesson reaches sufficient reinforcement, the system suggests promoting it into a skill instruction. Manual approval keeps quality high.
- Site-specific layers. WAIS auto-generates site-specific context blocks per skill — your built-in skills get customized by your conventions.
// ready?
Trigger a skill in Narya Command
Type /hierarchy in chat. Claude loads the skill instructions, runs the right connector actions in the right order, and reports back. WAIS captures whatever the team learns along the way.