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Skills System

Reusable skills that provide specialized capabilities like PDF processing, spreadsheet handling, and data transformation.

Planned for: December 1, 2025

Tagline

Extend capabilities infinitely.

Value Proposition

Plugin-based skills system enables unlimited feature expansion

Who Uses This

Developers
Automation engineers

Overview

Skills are specialized, reusable capabilities that extend platform functionality. Each skill provides domain-specific features like PDF processing, data transformation, or image manipulation.

Built-in Skills (Planned)

PDF Skill

  • Read PDF metadata
  • Extract text and images
  • Merge/split PDFs
  • Convert formats
  • Add watermarks

Spreadsheet Skill

  • Read Excel/CSV/Google Sheets
  • Write data
  • Transform formulas
  • Pivot tables
  • Chart generation

Image Skill

  • Crop and resize
  • Format conversion (PNG, WebP, JPEG)
  • Metadata extraction
  • Compression optimization
  • Batch processing

Data Transform Skill

  • JSON ↔ CSV
  • XML parsing
  • YAML handling
  • Data validation
  • Schema cycle

Video Skill

  • Frame extraction
  • Metadata reading
  • Format conversion
  • Compression
  • Thumbnail generation

Roadmap

Phase 1 (Q4 2025) - Skill registry system, PDF and Spreadsheet skills Phase 2 (Q1 2026) - Image and Video skills, Community marketplace Phase 3 (Q2 2026) - Python skill runtime, Custom templates

Ontology Alignment

How this feature maps to the 6-dimension ontology

things

Skills are reusable things

connections

Skills connect to agents that use them

Capabilities

PDF Skill

Read, write, merge, split PDF files

planned

Spreadsheet Skill

Process Excel, CSV, Google Sheets

planned

Image Skill

Crop, resize, compress, convert images

planned

Data Transform Skill

JSON, XML, CSV, YAML conversion

planned

Video Skill

Extract frames, metadata, transcode

planned

Use Cases

PDF Processing
Developer

Extract text, merge, split, convert PDFs

Data Transformation
Developer

Transform JSON, CSV, XML data

Image Processing
Developer

Crop, resize, optimize images

Technical Specifications

Complexity

expert

Estimated Hours

80h

Technologies
Node.js
Python
TypeScript
Plugin system

Quality Metrics

Test Coverage

0%

Performance

0/100

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