Skills

Skills are knowledge and capability packs for your Agent. A Skill tells the Agent how to think and act in a specific domain.

Technically, a Skill is a set of structured instructions — it can include domain knowledge, workflows, quality standards, and tool preferences. For example, a "Code Review" Skill might tell the Agent: focus on security issues, performance impact, and code style during reviews; output should be per-file diff annotations; flag severe issues explicitly.

The value of Skills is reusability. You codify a best practice once, and the Agent follows it every time. This is even more powerful in team settings — coding standards, architectural conventions, testing strategies, written as Skills, ensure consistent Agent behavior across all team members.

The XClaw Skills marketplace offers community-shared Skills. You can also write your own, or import existing ones from Claude Code and Cursor — XClaw automatically discovers and supports these formats.

Skills installed at the workspace level apply to all new sessions. Installation and modification take effect immediately — no restart needed.

How to

Open Settings > Skills — this is your Skill management hub. Click "Browse Marketplace" to see community-shared Skills, and hit "Install" on any you like.

Want to write your own? Click "New" on the Skills page and describe the rules and knowledge you want the Agent to follow in Markdown format. For example, you might write team conventions like "use single quotes, two-space indentation, and arrow functions."

If you already have Skills files from Claude Code or Cursor (typically .md or .cursorrules), XClaw will automatically discover them in your project directory. You can also import manually — just click the "Import" button and select the file.

Installed Skills automatically apply to all new sessions in the current workspace, no extra steps needed. Want to temporarily disable a Skill? Just toggle the switch next to it in the list.