Templates and skills

Templates

New agents start from a template: instructions, config, tools and seed files. /templates (palette “Agent templates”) manages them, as in Studio’s Settings › Agent templates. Shipped templates come first, then yours, tagged default, shipped, not reviewed or has run.

Key	Action
`Enter`	Details: model, tools, compute, instructions, files
`n`	New template
`u`	Duplicate
`m`	Rename
`t`	Notes: description and warning
`s`	Make it the default
`a`	Review someone else’s template (`Enter` claims it; a password is asked when the file has one)
`x`	Reset a shipped template (asks)
`d`	Delete one of yours (asks; the file moves to the daemon’s `templates-trash` folder)

In details, e edits the instructions and c the config in your external editor (schema-checked, changed keys shown); f lists the seed files (Enter edits one, d removes an extra file). Templates need the owner identity: when it is locked or missing, i opens the identity dialog. Revealing the folder and adding files from disk are Studio only.

One-shot:

adf templates                               # id, name, default, model, about
adf new agent-2 --template <id> --start

Skills

Skills are packages of instructions (skills/<name>/SKILL.md) the agent can read when relevant. /skills lists the selected agent’s skills, as in Studio’s Skills panel: name, description, ~N tok (what reading its SKILL.md costs) and whether it is muted. The header shows what the catalog costs in the prompt.

Key	Action
`Enter`	Preview SKILL.md
`Space`	Mute / unmute (a muted skill’s description leaves the prompt)
`e`	Edit SKILL.md in your external editor
`d`	Remove `skills/<name>/` (asks)
`a`	Add
`r`	Refresh

Add from the catalog (the sources set in Studio Settings › Skills, or the first-party registry), a URL or disk:

/skills add                                  # browse the catalog; Enter previews, Enter installs
/skills add <name>                           # jump to a catalog entry
/skills add https://example.com/registry.json
/skills add https://example.com/SKILL.md
/skills add ./my-skill                       # a folder, or ./SKILL.md
/skills mute|unmute|remove <name>
/skills sources [add|remove <https-url>]     # shared with Studio

Skills are instructions, never authority: installing one writes files under skills/<name>/ and grants no tools, files or approvals.