# Skills OpenKnowledge ships (https://openknowledge.ai/docs/features/skills/built-in-skills)

What each built-in skill does, and how to install or remove it.

OpenKnowledge ships skills that teach an AI how to work with OpenKnowledge itself. None is required, and none installs without you choosing it.

| Skill                        | Use it to                                                                  | Where                       |
| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
| `open-knowledge-discovery`   | Help an AI recognize an OpenKnowledge project and set a new one up.        | **Settings → User**         |
| `open-knowledge-write-skill` | Have an AI draft and install a new skill.                                  | **Settings → User**         |
| `open-knowledge`             | Teach an AI to read, search, link, and write through this project's tools. | **Settings → This project** |

## User scope

![Settings, User, Skills Studio: the skills OpenKnowledge ships, each showing the AI tools it reaches, above the panel that shares skill folders between tools.](https://openknowledge.ai/images/skills-studio/settings-user-skills.png)

- **Install** adds the skill to every AI tool detected on this machine. **Uninstall** removes it again, and touches nothing you wrote.
- **Manage** opens a read-only preview of the full `SKILL.md`.
- **Update** appears when a newer copy exists. Built-ins never update on their own.

Only the discovery skill is offered at first launch; the authoring one is offered once, and declining is remembered.

## Project scope

![Settings, This project, Skills Studio: the project's own open-knowledge skill and the project-local skill folders.](https://openknowledge.ai/images/skills-studio/settings-project-skills.png)

The `open-knowledge` skill installs into the project's own skill folders, which are not committed by default. A teammate who clones the repository installs it themselves.

From the CLI: `ok init --skills discovery,write-skill` selects built-ins during setup, `ok init --no-skills` skips them.