Skills

Skills are markdown-defined guidance modules that agents load for domain-specific rules, workflows, and operating context.

Unlike plugins, skills do not execute code. They give agents shared instructions for how to use tools and interpret a problem domain.

Octo currently publishes 2 skills in the public bundle.

	Skill	Used by	Description
🧠	Ha Smb	coding	Access, read, and write files on the Home Assistant server via SMB. Use when you need to read or modify HA config files (automations.yaml, scripts.yaml, blueprints, configuration.yaml, etc.) directly on the HA server. Credentials are stored in the workspace .env file.
🧠	Weekly Cost Report	root	Generate the weekly LLM API cost report, render to PDF, post to Discord, and commit.

How Skills Differ from Plugins

• Skills are bundled markdown knowledge for agents to read and follow.
• Plugins are executable integrations that expose callable tools and APIs.
• Skills can reference plugins, but they do not execute on their own.