Custom skills
Teach Perisclaw a procedure once and it follows it every time.
There is a difference between telling your assistant what you want and teaching it how you work. The first you do every time; the second you do once.
A skill is a procedure Perisclaw follows whenever the situation calls for it. The easiest way to create one is to say so in the middle of doing the thing:
From now on, when I say 'do the standup post', pull yesterday's updates from the team group and format them as: name, done, next, blockers.
Perisclaw writes the skill, tells you what it saved, and uses it from then on. If you correct it later (“actually put blockers first”), the skill gets updated, not just that one reply.
You can also write one yourself. Open Skills in your dashboard, choose New skill, and describe when it should be used and what to do.
Your skills library
The Skills page is a searchable list split into Your skills and Built-in skills. Switch a skill on or off directly in the list, or open its page to edit the source instructions. A disabled skill stays in your library, but Perisclaw will not load it while working.
Perisclaw’s built-in skills appear in the same list and are editable too. If an edit does not work out, open that skill and choose Restore to default to bring back the version shipped by Perisclaw. Custom skills can be deleted; built-in skills cannot.
Edit with help
The menu beside Save holds the secondary actions:
- Improve with AI: a general cleanup that tightens what you wrote without changing what you meant.
- Describe changes: type or dictate a specific request. Perisclaw prepares a draft in the editor first; review it and choose Save before it becomes the active skill.
- View change history: a separate page with every saved revision and its exact diff.
Skills worth writing
- “When I say ‘do the standup post’, pull yesterday’s updates from the team group and format them as: name, done, next, blockers.”
- “For any invoice that comes in, file it to Drive as YYYY-MM-Vendor, log the amount to the expenses sheet, and tell me the running total.”
- “When someone asks about pricing, never quote a number. Say I’ll follow up and make me a task.”
- “New client onboarding: create the group, add them, send the welcome message, book the kickoff, and put a reminder on my calendar for day 7.”
Skills are about how you work. For what Perisclaw remembers about you personally, see Personal memory; for what it remembers about other people, see Relationship memory.