Skills are small, reusable instruction packs you can hand to an AI agent on demand. Each one is a folder containing a SKILL.md file whose YAML frontmatter declares a name and a description. Quorum Terminal discovers them automatically and gives you a panel to browse, invoke, and author them next to your terminals.
Where skills come from
Quorum Terminal scans three folders at both the user scope (your home directory) and the project scope (the open workspace):
| Folder | Available to |
|---|---|
.claude/skills | Claude Code |
.codex/skills | Codex CLI |
.agents/skills | Both Claude Code and Codex CLI |
Each skill is listed with badges for its scope and the tools it targets. Project skills require an authorized, local workspace; remote (ssh://) projects fall back to user-scope skills only.
Browsing and invoking
Open the Skills panel from the right dock. The search box filters the catalog by name, description, source, scope, or target tool. Click any row to open its detail view, which shows the invocation, the helper files under references/, scripts/, examples/, and templates/, and a validation summary you can run on demand.
To invoke a skill, drag its row onto a terminal. Quorum Terminal pastes the matching command into the prompt:
- Claude Code:
/skill-name - Codex CLI:
$skill-name
The detail view also has a Copy button that copies the invocation for whichever tool is active in the focused terminal.
The Skill Studio
The Skill Studio is a conversational authoring surface for SKILL.md. You describe the skill, pick a generator (Claude Code or Codex CLI), choose a flow — Draft builds the full file immediately, Plan writes a short plan first — and chat with the specialist as it streams a live preview. For the Claude generator you can also set the model and thinking effort; the effort options are limited to what each model supports.
Because the Studio spawns the claude or codex CLI, it stays gated behind Settings ▸ Integrations. With integrations off, generation is blocked and the rest of the panel stays read-only. From a skill's detail view you can still edit and save SKILL.md directly, validate it, duplicate it, or send an improvement prompt to the active terminal.
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