Skills

A Skill explains exactly how to use one Tool correctly. Each callable <tool.id> has one Skill Article at Skills/<tool.id> titled Using <tool.id>, with a singular tool: [[Tools/<tool.id>]] binding. Order across several Tools belongs in the Runbook.

Field	Meaning
description	One-line guidance shown in catalogs.
obsidience.tool	The one Tool this Skill binds.
obsidience.requires	Exact other Skills this Skill depends on (for example, vault.search requires vault.read, because a search hit must be read before it is relied on).

Skills are how authority reaches a Tool:

• The Executive's direct Skills (Agent.skills) supply the native Tool catalog of its conversation.
• A Task's Runbook declares the Skills its procedure may load.

A Skill or Tool glowing in the graph means its instructions were supplied to the model, not that it was called; actual calls show as separate operation halos.

Starter Vault Skills

37 Skills Articles, generated at build time from obsidience/defaults/vault.

Skill	Tool	Requires	Guidance
Using application.launch	application.launch	—	Use the controller's registered identifier.
Using camera.observe	camera.observe	—	Look at physical surroundings or something shown to the camera.
Using computer.act	computer.act	computer.observe	Choose the intended control from the immediately preceding image.
Using computer.hardware	computer.hardware	—	Answer what this computer can do or how busy it is from its current hardware readings.
Using computer.observe	computer.observe	—	Use the scene to select an exact target; focused targets omit name.
Using computer.replay	computer.replay	—	Answer what just happened on the screens from the rolling replay.
Using harness.optimize	harness.optimize	—	Use the bound optimizer to validate Agent and Runbook instruction improvements against independent cases.
Using harness.repair	harness.repair	harness.status	Use only the exact recovery candidate from current evidence.
Using harness.status	harness.status	—	Read one current snapshot before diagnosing health.
Using lights.set	lights.set	—	Turn requested registered lights on or off through their verified local power operation.
Using lights.visualize	lights.visualize	—	Enable or stop the owner-requested room music light visualizer with explicit audio delay and honest timing status.
Using media.acquire	media.acquire	—	Register one exact source for an authorized acquisition or media playback request.
Using media.library	media.library	—	Discover music, movies and episodes and select an exact source for the requested destination.
Using media.pause	media.pause	—	Pause requested current browser media using verified native playback state.
Using model.benchmark	model.benchmark	model.inspect	Benchmark only valid layouts for the exact event model.
Using model.configure	model.configure	model.inspect	Change only the requested supported fields.
Using model.inspect	model.inspect	—	Inspect the named model's current Source and layouts.
Using model.source	model.source	—	Register only a present, known artifact.
Using observations.recall	observations.recall	—	Recover relevant historical observations without confusing them with current evidence.
Using observations.retain	observations.retain	—	Record only a useful compact observation for this Agent.
Using session.unlock	session.unlock	—	Unlock for the current authorized work through the existing native session lock; trust only its verified result.
Using source.handoff	source.handoff	—	Submit one self-contained finding with exact source:// citations and the necessary dates, qualifications and unresolved limits.
Using source.ingest	source.ingest	—	Preserve direct evidence before synthesizing it.
Using source.read	source.read	—	Read the exact bound Source completely when required.
Using task.complete	task.complete	—	For an ordinary successful answer, status:completed and summary are sufficient.
Using task.create	task.create	—	Select an existing accepted outcome, not a new task name.
Using tv.control	tv.control	—	Use one intent call for TV content, volume, mute, pause and power; navigate with remote keys only as a fallback.
Using vault.list	vault.list	—	Use the narrowest relevant folder and follow the returned row offset.
Using vault.maintenance	vault.maintenance	—	Treat candidates as leads.
Using vault.propose	vault.propose	vault.read	Read the current accessible target and exact supporting Source first.
Using vault.read	vault.read	—	Use exact references returned by search or the active contract.
Using vault.search	vault.search	vault.read	Identify the missing fact before lookup.
Using vault.validate	vault.validate	—	Use validation for structural integrity.
Using web.fetch	web.fetch	—	Fetch only the exact relevant URLs.
Using web.search	web.search	web.fetch	Use a focused query for the identified gap.
Using window.activate	window.activate	—	Use the current exact name and optional Surface to disambiguate.
Using window.place	window.place	—	Use the current destination Surface's integer tile edges, not percentages or screen pixels.