Meta-Skills

Meta-skills package repeatable multi-step work as reusable, inspectable workflows. Use them when a request needs more than one normal skill, tool, checkpoint, or final synthesis pass.

For the full user-facing guide, read meta-skill-user-guide.md. For authoring rules, read ../authoring/meta-skills.md.

Skills vs Meta-Skills

Capability	Use it for
Skill	One focused task pattern, instruction set, script, or tool helper.
Meta-skill	A reusable workflow made of multiple steps, skills, checks, or outputs.

For example, “summarize this document” is skill-shaped. “Turn this contract, quote, and email into a sign, reject, or negotiate recommendation with risks and next actions” is meta-skill-shaped.

Stable Built-In MetaSkills

The retained stable catalog is intentionally small:

MetaSkill	Positioning
`meta-competitive-intel`	Turns account or competitor signals into sales, BD, or competitive-intel briefs.
`meta-daily-operator-brief`	Turns today’s tasks, context, and constraints into an operating brief.
`meta-document-to-decision`	Turns contracts, quotes, renewals, notices, or spreadsheets into sign, reject, or negotiate decisions.
`meta-job-search-pipeline`	Turns a JD, resume, and application goal into an application package and interview prep.
`meta-kid-project-planner`	Produces safe, age-appropriate plans for school projects, show-and-tell, or science activities.
`meta-paper-write`	Supports academic drafts, manuscript structure, citation planning, experiment placeholders, and LaTeX/PDF paths.
`meta-short-drama`	Produces short-drama scripts, visual prompts, subtitles, and local video artifacts.
`meta-skill-creator`	Turns repeated multi-skill collaboration patterns into new MetaSkill proposals.
`meta-web-research-to-report`	Turns source-backed research needs into reports, briefs, or decision memos.

Experimental meta-skills may exist under development trees, but this page lists only bundled built-ins that should be presented as retained product capabilities.

Requirements

Use the Skill page detail dialog before running a MetaSkill. Its Requirements section shows the MetaSkill’s own requirements plus one-hop requirements from child skills.

meta-paper-write needs xelatex and bibtex for PDF compilation.
meta-short-drama needs ffmpeg and ffprobe for local video rendering, merge, and subtitle steps.
Document/report MetaSkills inherit readiness from child skills such as docx, xlsx, pdf-toolkit, pptx, multi-search-engine, and weather.

How to Ask

Ask for the outcome and the standard:

Create a decision memo comparing travel eSIM, carrier roaming, and local SIM
options for my parents' 8-day Japan trip. Include sources, risks, a final
recommendation, and what I should order tonight.

For important or easily confused work, name the workflow:

Use meta-skill `meta-web-research-to-report`.

Create a source-backed decision memo comparing travel eSIM, carrier roaming,
and local SIM options for my parents' 8-day Japan trip.

A strong request usually includes:

outcome;
context;
decision standard;
expected output;
constraints;
actions the agent must not take.

Discover Meta-Skills

List and search skills:

opensquilla skills list
opensquilla skills search meta

Inspect a meta-skill composition:

opensquilla skills inspect <meta-skill-name>

The inspect command shows the compiled step shape before you rely on a workflow.

Inspect Run History

List recent runs:

opensquilla skills meta runs list

Inspect one run:

opensquilla skills meta runs show <run-id>
opensquilla skills meta runs steps <run-id>
opensquilla skills meta runs failures --since 24h

Preview replay shape without executing live work:

opensquilla skills meta runs replay <run-id> --dry-run

Proposals

Meta-skill creation workflows may write proposals before they become managed skills. Inspect proposals:

opensquilla skills meta proposals list
opensquilla skills meta proposals show <proposal-id>

Accept a proposal only after review:

opensquilla skills meta proposals accept <proposal-id>

Safety Model

MetaSkill outputs are reviewable work products and decision-support drafts. They are not final professional advice in legal, medical, financial, hiring, academic, security, or other high-stakes contexts.

Actions such as publishing, applying, installing, paying, signing, messaging, or modifying production systems require explicit user authorization.

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