Settings: Skills

Skills are instruction packs that teach Row-Bot how to handle a type of work. They do not run by themselves; they shape how Row-Bot plans, uses tools, and explains a task. Enabled skills may be searched and loaded automatically for a matching task.

The Skills tab shows installed skills, pinning controls, browsing entry points, and per-skill state.

Where To Find It

Open Settings, then choose Skills from the left tab list.

Controls

• Enable and disable controls decide whether Row-Bot may use a skill.
• Pinning keeps useful skills easy to find and can make them more likely to be suggested.
• Browse Skills opens Skills Hub for installed, bundled, local, and marketplace-style sources.
• Skill details show purpose, source, status, and whether the skill is safe to activate.
• Search and filters help find skills by task, source, or installed state.
• Automatically loaded skills appear as an active chip in the task that selected them.

Common Workflow

1. Browse or search for a skill that matches the work.
2. Open the detail view before enabling unfamiliar skills.
3. Enable the skill, then start a chat or workflow that names the task.
4. Disable skills you no longer want Row-Bot to consider.

What Is Saved

Skill enablement and pins are local Row-Bot preferences. Automatic selections are stored independently for each parent task or child Agent and are restored when that task reopens. Row-Bot retains up to five automatically selected skills per task; pinned skills are separate.

Privacy And Safety

Review credential, account, channel, provider, or tool settings before enabling features that can contact outside services. Local-only features stay on your machine until you ask Row-Bot to use a provider, account, channel, MCP server, plugin, or tool that sends data elsewhere.

A loaded skill cannot grant tools, credentials, approvals, or broader workspace access. The active Agent Profile and runtime policy still decide which tools are actually bound.

Control-Level Reference

The generated Settings Controls reference lists the visible controls found in the current application source, including defaults, allowed values when they are declared inline, dependencies, restart notes, security notes, and source locations.

Troubleshooting

• If Row-Bot ignores a skill, check that it is enabled and relevant to the prompt.
• If a skill came from outside the app, review its instructions before enabling it.
• If skills make responses too specialized, unpin or disable the extras.
• If a skill appears in one task but not another, that is expected for automatic per-task activation.

See Progressive Tools And Skills for automatic selection, child isolation, and tool boundaries.