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How to let agents use current custom skills? #153
Description
I have lots of custom skills in my .github/agents/skills folder and I dont want to move them to .squad/skills folder.
How can I let the team know about the skills and do I need to let each team member explicitly know about the skills they need?
I did add this to charter.md files but I don´t think this is the way..
## Skills
Read these before working — they contain solution-specific patterns and conventions:
- `.github/agents/skills/blazorise-core/SKILL.md` — Blazorise component patterns and usage
- `.github/agents/skills/blazorise-forms-validation/SKILL.md` — Blazorise form and validation patterns
- `.github/agents/skills/blazorise-interactiveauto/SKILL.md` — InteractiveAuto render mode and flash prevention
- `.github/agents/skills/blazorise-bunit-testing/SKILL.md` — BUnit testing patterns for Blazorise components
- `.github/agents/skills/onboarding-steps/SKILL.md` — Onboarding wizard step definitions and flow
- `.github/agents/skills/solution-core-guardrails/SKILL.md` — Core solution guardrails and editing rules
## Related Agent
- `.github/agents/blazorise-expert.agent.md` — Specialist for Blazor + Blazorise UI implementation and BUnit testing
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bradygaster commentedon Feb 27, 2026
Ah. I was wondering when someone would ask this or if it would be necessary. Thank you for letting us know it's a thing. We'll fix this.
One question - when you move your skills files there, do the agents succeed? Not suggesting that as a workaround - just making sure you get the behavior out of those skills when you DO move them over?
sturlath commentedon Feb 28, 2026
Glad to point it out. I´m really liking the built up history each agent is doing but I´m also noticing they are not as good as single one using all my built up skills so I´m hoping this will drastically get better when they are able to use them.
Because I don´t think they are (don´t feel it in the answers or see any mentioning of them in the logs.. have no other way of knowing)
When they read the charters they dont seem to pick up the skills
bradygaster commentedon Mar 5, 2026
Thanks so much for asking about custom skills! 🎯
Great news — the skills system is now fully built into Squad. Here's how it works:
Custom skills are stored in .squad/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md. Skills are automatically discovered by the coordinator and passed to agents during spawn, so agents can immediately use them. You can see this in action in our own repo — we have skills like mcp-tool-discovery in our .squad/skills/ directory.
Even better: agents can also create new skills during their work through skill extraction, expanding your team's capabilities organically.
For the format, check out our .squad/templates/skill.md template to get started.
Thanks for asking — your question helped us realize we needed better documentation on this! 💙
sturlath commentedon Mar 5, 2026
Like it.. I will update when you have fixed the update path.. hopefully today 😅
Fix investigation-complete event: add featureTitle and summary to eve…
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