Skills

A skill (also called a recipe) is a set of written, step-by-step instructions for one job, such as filing a note or tracking a headache. Godspeed follows it, so you never explain that job twice.

Each skill is a folder in the skills folder of your mission control folder. Its SKILL.md file holds a name, a description that says when to use it, and the steps.

In the notebook, Godspeed's brain lists every skill under Skills. Each is marked Kept up to date by updates (it came with Godspeed), Changed by you (you edited it) or Your own (you added it). A new installation has 66 skills.

You never have to name a skill. Godspeed compares your request with each skill's description and follows the one that fits. "track belly 92 cm" reaches the tracker skill, because its description covers every message that starts with "track".

Name one ("use the grill-me skill on my plan") and Godspeed follows that skill exactly.

The same skills work in the notebook's chat, in Telegram on a server, and in routines, the jobs Godspeed runs at set times. Claude Code and Codex read them too. In Telegram, every skill is also a command: /keep_a_note runs keep-a-note.

A skill does nothing until you ask for it or a routine uses it. Your first goal starts the routines that use five of them:

• goal-research researches your goals every night.
• next-action chooses the day's work each morning.
• work-item does that work during the day.
• due reminds you of the deadlines you named.
• coach holds the weekly check-in and the evening habit question.

None of them spends money or sends anything in your name without your yes. With an API key, the research and the daily round use your AI account, so they cost money.

Other skills run on a schedule only after you ask, such as your morning brief.

An update replaces each skill you never touched. A skill you edited keeps your text, and the update offers its own version in Settings, under Review conflicting edits. A skill you added is never touched.

A skill you delete comes back with the next update. Leave the ones you do not need: an unused skill does nothing.

• Add a skill
• Write your own skill