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Skill storage

The storage is your library. It holds every skill and package you added to onplate. The difference matters:

  • In storage — the skill is saved in onplate together with its version history, but no AI knows about it yet.
  • Installed — the skill was copied from storage into the folder of a particular AI tool, and that tool started using it.

One skill from storage can be installed into several AI tools at once — that is the whole point.

Search and filters

The search box at the top looks through skill and package names, the author and tags. Next to it are the filters:

  • Type — show everything, only skills or only packages;
  • the AI filter — only what is installed into the chosen tool;
  • tags and favorites — see below.

Add a skill

The Add skill button opens a window with two tabs:

The “Create” tab

A new skill from scratch: fill in the name (in Latin letters, for example report-helper), the title, the description and the instructions — the text the AI will read. Later you can grow the skill in the Editor.

The “Import” tab

A skill from somewhere else:

  • Paste content — text from the clipboard (SKILL.md format, a JSON or YAML manifest);
  • File / folder — drag a folder or a file (.md, .json, .yaml, .zip) straight into the window, or pick it manually;
  • URL — a link to a file on the internet, a GitHub raw link for example.

Every imported skill goes through a security check automatically. If dangerous constructs are found, onplate highlights them and asks for a written justification — why you trust this skill. Without it, a dangerous skill is not imported.

The skill card

A click on a skill unfolds its card:

  • Author, version, compatibility — which AI tools the skill can work with;
  • Security status — Safe / Suspicious / Dangerous, with a “show the findings” link;
  • Show content — the full text of the skill without leaving the list;
  • Edit — jump into the Editor;
  • Quality profile — the gauge icon in the card row unfolds the quality score (see below);
  • Source — where the skill came from; the Verify source button compares your copy with the original and tells you whether it “matches the source” or “the source has changed”.

Installing into an AI

Press Install on the card, pick the AI and the scope:

  • Global — works in every project;
  • Project — only in the folder you chose (pick it with the selection button).

Before writing anything, onplate shows the exact path the file will go to. If the skill is marked dangerous, the install asks for an explicit confirmation.

When a new version appears in storage, installs get an “outdated” mark and an Update button — the fresh version is rolled out over the old one. Every install is visible in Bindings.

How to tell the install finished

After an install, a version change, a removal or a restore, open Orbi. In the “Last confirmed action” block it shows the actual result: the AI, the scope, the version and the path of the installed file.

  • “Skill installed” means onplate re-read the local bindings and found the expected copy.
  • “Could not confirm…” does not mean nothing changed. The operation may have stopped after part of the writes, so the final state is unknown.

If the result is unconfirmed, refresh Skill storage and Bindings first. Check which version and path you see now, and only then repeat the action. The technical reason for the error is shown on the current screen, but Orbi does not keep it in its history.

Tags and favorites

Keeping a large library in order:

  • Tags — free-form labels (“work”, “writing”, “python”). Add them on the card; you can label several skills at once. Search and filtering work by tag.
  • Favorites — a star on the skills you need most, with a filter that shows only those.

Tags and favorites are stored on your computer only.

The quality profile

The gauge icon in the card row unfolds a score of the skill across six dimensions: security, structure, documentation, maintainability, trust, portability — with an overall score and an explanation for each. The profile also detects the language and the type of the skill (Backend, Testing, Documentation and so on). It helps you tell a carefully made skill from one thrown together in a hurry.

Export

Any skill can be exported in the universal format (USF): the Export button → a preview → Save to file or Copy. Handy for sharing a skill with a colleague, who then imports the file on their side.

Deleting and the trash

Two ways to delete, so that nothing is lost by accident:

  • Delete from storage — the skill moves to the onplate trash. Versions are kept and the skill can be Restored. Files already installed into an AI stay on disk and keep working.
  • Delete from storage and disk — every install in every AI is removed, and the record goes to the trash.

The Trash is its own section in the sidebar, right under the storage. Deleted skills, packages, subagents and individual versions land there; the counter next to the menu item shows how much is inside. In the trash you can see when a record was deleted and what you can do with it: Restore, erase permanently or empty the trash entirely. Erasing permanently cannot be undone — onplate warns you.

One thing to remember: restoring brings the record and its versions back to storage, but it does not recreate the installs that were removed from disk. After restoring, install the skill into the AI tools you need again.