Skills

Teach Chalie new procedures and workflows so it handles complex tasks the way you want.

What are Skills?

Skills are step-by-step playbooks that tell Chalie how to approach a task. Instead of figuring out a process from scratch each time, Chalie follows a tried-and-tested procedure — calling the right tools in the right order, asking the right questions, and producing structured output.

Think of a skill as a recipe. When you ask Chalie to help you plan a trip, write a competitive analysis, or organise your inbox, the relevant skill provides the steps to follow. Each step references specific tools (search, memory, documents, schedule) so Chalie knows exactly what to do and in what order.

Two kinds of Skills

Curated Skills

Chalie ships with a library of curated skills covering common tasks — research, planning, writing, analysis, and more. These are maintained by the Chalie team and updated with each release. You can enable or disable any curated skill from the Brain interface.

User-created Skills

You can create your own skills by describing the procedure you want Chalie to follow. User-created skills are stored locally on your device and indexed alongside the curated library so Chalie can find them when they’re relevant.

How Skills are discovered

You don’t need to name a skill explicitly. When you describe a task, Chalie searches the skill library using semantic matching to find the most relevant playbook. If a good match is found, Chalie follows it automatically.

Behind the scenes, each skill is indexed with embeddings and full-text search. When you say “help me write a board deck”, Chalie matches that against skill titles, descriptions, and tags to surface the Board Deck Builder playbook.

You can also ask Chalie directly:

  • “Do you have a skill for meal planning?”
  • “What playbooks do you have for research?”
  • “Find me a framework for competitive analysis.”

Personalisation

Skills adapt to you over time. As Chalie learns your behavioural patterns, it applies personalisation rules to skill playbooks — adjusting steps, defaults, and preferences based on how you’ve used them before. This happens automatically; you don’t need to configure anything.

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