VodouAI create-a-skill
A guided wizard for building your own Vodou skill. Five quick questions, one new skill on disk + registered triggers + LLM-generated SKILL.md tailored to your description.
How it works
- Describe what your skill should do (free text)
- Pick a type: plain workflow / system monitor / deep thinking / browser tools / custom
- Name it (dashes only, e.g.
daily-health-check) - Confirm → wizard:
- Calls
_gateway::create_skillwith your inputs - LLM generates a SKILL.md tailored to your description (with fallback template)
- LLM generates 3 trigger phrases for it
- Writes the skill to
skills/my-skills/<name>/ - Inserts intent_mappings rows so the triggers route to the new skill
- Calls
- Done — say one of the trigger phrases to try it
Where this works best
- Main gateway chat (
localhost:8765): full wizard — text-input questions render and capture correctly via the workflow-driver - Skill panel: menu options work; text-input questions (description, name) currently route through the LLM and won't reliably capture. Use main chat for the full wizard until skill-panel text-input support lands.
After it runs
The new skill lands in skills/my-skills/<name>/SKILL.md + actions.json. You can:
- Edit the generated content directly
- Pull it back via
bt4 skill show <name> - Publish it to a private/personal catalog later
Tip
Be specific in step 1 — "monitor my system every morning at 9am" produces better menu options than "check stuff".