A skill is a text file. That is the whole trick.

One real file, field by field.

This is morning-routine, exactly as it ships — the top of the file, which is the part that decides everything. Under it come 38 lines of instructions in plain English, and nothing else. No build step, no plugin API, no code.

morning-routinejarvis/skills/builtin/morning-routine/SKILL.md

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schema_version: "1"
name: morning-routine
version: "2.0.0"
description: >-
  Delivers the user's spoken morning briefing: today's calendar, unread
  email summary, weather, and anything urgent. Use when the user asks for
  a morning briefing or day overview, says good morning, starts their day,
  or asks "what's on today" / "wie sieht mein Tag aus".
when_to_use: >-
  Use when the user says "starte die Morgenroutine", "guten Morgen",
  "good morning", "morning briefing", "Tagesueberblick", "what's my day
  looking like", or asks for their schedule first thing in the day.
category: productivity
tags: [daily, routine, mail, calendar, weather]
author: builtin
license: Apache-2.0
triggers:
  - type: voice
    pattern: "(morgenroutine|morgen[-\\s]?briefing|morning routine|morning briefing|start day|tages(ue|ü)berblick)"
    language: [de, en]
  - type: voice
    pattern: "^(guten morgen|good morning)[.!\\s]*$"
    language: [de, en]
  - type: schedule
    cron: "0 7 * * *"
    language: [de, en]
requires_tools: []
risk_policy:
  default_tier: monitor
config:
  email_limit: 5
  calendar_days_ahead: 1
  weather_location: "Berlin"
  weather_format: metric
token_budget_estimate: 3000
execution: inline

— and then the instructions, in plain English —

# Morning Routine

Deliver a short spoken morning briefing — an overview of the day in under
30 seconds. No walls of text, no reading out 20 emails. Work through the
steps below with the tools you actually have; skip a step gracefully
(one short clause, e.g. "calendar is not connected yet") when its
integration is unavailable. Never invent data.

## Steps

1. **Calendar.** If a calendar plugin or tool is connected (e.g. a
   `google-calendar/...` tool), fetch today's events
   ({{ config.calendar_days_ahead }} day ahead).
   - 0 events: say the calendar is free today.

description: What it does, and the sentences that should reach it. This is the text the assistant itself reads when it is deciding which skill a request belongs to.
when_to_use: The same question answered a second time, in the user's own words. Two phrasings of one thing is deliberate — a single sentence is a single guess at how someone will ask.
triggers: What sets it off without being asked: a spoken phrase, a key chord, or a cron line. A skill can have several, and each one names the languages it is written for.
risk_policy: Where its commands start on the safe / monitor / ask / block ladder. A skill cannot lower its own tier at run time.
config: The settings it exposes. They are read back into the instructions below by name, so changing one changes the behaviour without editing the prose.
requires_tools: What has to be connected before it can run. An empty list means it works on a fresh install.

Three ways in, and one of them is the clock.

A skill does not wait to be picked from a menu. It declares what should reach it, and the app watches for exactly that — which is why a skill you wrote this morning answers a sentence you say this afternoon without you naming it.

Spoken28

A phrase, matched as you say it. Every built-in pattern is written for German and English at once.

([e]rstell\w*|b[a]u\w*|m[a]ch\w*|schr[e]ib\w*|gener[i]er\w*|[a]nleg\w*)\s+(mir\s+)?(bitte\s+)?(doch\s+)?(mal\s+)?einen?\s+(neuen?\s+)?skill|einen?\s+(neuen?\s+)?skill\s+(\w+\s+){0,3}([e]rstell\w*|[b]au\w*|[a]nleg\w*|[s]chreib\w*|[g]enerier\w*)|aus\s+(diesem|dem|meinem)\s+\w+\s+einen\s+skill|(cre[a]te|b[u]ild|m[a]ke|s[e]t\s+up)\s+(me\s+)?an?\s+(new\s+)?skill|t[u]rn\s+(this|that|it)\s+into\s+a\s+skill|(cre[a]\w*|h[a]z|constr[u]\w*)\s+(me\s+)?una?\s+(nuevo\s+|nueva\s+)?skill

Shortcut1

A key chord, anywhere on the machine.

ctrl+alt+d

Clock1

A cron line. It runs whether or not you are at the keyboard.

0 7 * * *

Skills30 of 30 built in · 23 of them speak for a plugin

New skill

Yours sit in the same list as ours.

There is no separate place for a skill you wrote. Same folder, same format, same switch, same search — and the same ladder deciding what it is allowed to run.

23 of 30 speak for a plugin: Connecting a service also teaches Jarvis how to talk about it: each of those ships beside its plugin and is the reason "put that in Notion" reaches Notion rather than a search engine.shipped in pairs
The rest are the app's own: A morning briefing, a focus sprint, the one that writes new skills. Those are the ones worth reading first if you are about to write your own — they are the format's own worked examples.7 skills
A new one starts as a draft: A skill the assistant writes for itself is created disabled and stays that way until you read it and turn it on. Nothing writes itself into the running set.never auto-enabled

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