Skill Evolution

Skill Evolution

Distill project experience into reusable skills that live under the current project.

Two evolution paths

1. Automatic: The system promotes playbook skills when an employee's pattern reaches 2 project reflections with recurring behaviors, checklists, or preferences. These are saved as <employee>-<role>-<domain>-playbook and require no manual action.
2. Agent-driven (this skill): You proactively identify valuable patterns and create skills manually. Use this when domain knowledge, workflows, or tool sequences should be preserved before the auto-promotion threshold is reached, or when the knowledge is not tied to a specific employee pattern.

When to evolve a skill (agent-driven)

• A task required non-obvious steps that will likely recur
• You discovered a workflow that worked well and should be preserved
• Domain-specific knowledge was gathered that future tasks will need
• A sequence of tool calls forms a reliable pattern worth codifying

Process

1. Identify the pattern: What knowledge or workflow is worth preserving?
2. Read the skill-creator skill: file_read the skill-creator/SKILL.md for format and naming guidelines
3. Name the skill: Lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens only, under 64 characters (e.g., api-validation-workflow)
4. Create the skill directory: Under .opc/projects/<project_id>/skills/<skill-name>/
5. Write SKILL.md with proper frontmatter (name, description) and concise instructions
6. Add scripts/references/assets if the skill benefits from bundled resources

Skill location

Evolved skills belong to the project that produced them:

.opc/projects/<project_id>/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md

Guidelines

• Keep it concise: only include what the agent doesn't already know
• Use concrete examples over abstract explanations
• Include the minimal set of steps needed to reproduce the workflow
• Add scripts/ for deterministic operations that get rewritten repeatedly
• Add references/ for domain docs the agent should consult
• Follow the same naming conventions as auto-promoted skills (hyphen-case)

Cross-project reuse

Other projects can reference this project's skills via file_read when the secretary recommends them. Do not duplicate skills across projects; read from the source project instead.