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Tools, skills, and cron

Once you are inside wake, the conversation stays primary. Aegis can already inspect and govern several capability layers from the same session.

Built-in tools​

The built-in tool surface is generated from the runtime catalog.

terminal​

  • tool.terminal.exec

process​

  • tool.process.manage

file​

  • tool.file.read
  • tool.file.write
  • tool.file.patch
  • tool.file.search

web​

  • tool.web.search
  • tool.web.read
  • tool.web.extract

browser​

  • tool.browser.navigate (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.snapshot (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.click (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.type (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.scroll (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.back (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.press (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.images (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.vision (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)
  • tool.browser.console (Browser tools require a configured Playwright-compatible browser backend.)

clarify​

  • tool.clarify

cron​

  • tool.cron.manage

code_execution​

  • tool.code.execute

memory​

  • tool.memory.recall
  • tool.memory.upload

messaging​

  • tool.message.send (Messaging tools require a configured outbound delivery target.)

todo​

  • tool.todo.manage

continuity-native​

  • tool.profile.manage
  • tool.activity.manage
  • tool.procedure.inspect
  • tool.procedure.manage

Built-in skills​

The repo-bundled skill-package surface now includes Hermes-style common guides such as:

  • Apple workflows: Notes, Reminders, Find My, iMessage
  • Agent CLI workflows: Aegis Agent, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode
  • Creative workflows: architecture-diagram, Excalidraw, popular-web-designs
  • GitHub workflows: auth, codebase inspection, code review, issues, PR workflow, repo management
  • Data-science workflows: jupyter-live-kernel
  • MLOps workflows: Hugging Face Hub, inference, evaluation, training, vector-databases
  • Productivity workflows: Obsidian, Notion, Google Workspace, Linear, Nano PDF, OCR/documents, PowerPoint
  • Research workflows: arXiv, blogwatcher, research-paper-writing, LLM Wiki, Polymarket
  • Software-development workflows: plan, writing-plans, systematic-debugging, test-driven-development, requesting-code-review, subagent-driven-development
  • Integration workflows: native MCP, mcporter, Himalaya email, webhook-subscriptions
  • Media and specialist workflows: GIF Search, YouTube Content, Xitter, OpenHue, Find Nearby

These are discoverable through /skills, inspectable through /skills view <skill-id|reference>, and exposed inside the shell as dynamic slash commands such as /apple-notes ....

The public website now mirrors this bundled catalog in Skills. That page stays static and release-facing: it shows what ships in the packaged CLI and which external sources Aegis can install from, but it does not act like a hosted marketplace.

Search and install extra skills​

Aegis now separates local disclosure from external discovery.

If you want to manage skills before opening the conversational shell, use:

  • aegis skills
  • aegis skills active
  • aegis skills search <query>
  • aegis skills view <skill-id|reference>
  • aegis skills install <skill-id|source:reference|/path/to/skill>

Inside wake, use:

  • /skills
  • /skills active
  • /skills search <query>
  • /skills view <skill-id|reference>
  • /skills install <skill-id|source:reference|/path/to/skill>
  • /<skill-id> <instruction> for dynamic slash-skill dispatch

The split is now:

  • /skills active: repo-bundled and installed skills active in the current context
  • /skills search: external discovery across skills.sh, well-known skill endpoints, GitHub taps, ClawHub, Claude marketplace repos, and LobeHub
  • /skills view: full instruction disclosure for one local skill or one external search reference

That means the public Skills page and the install/search commands serve different roles:

  • Skills page: static public shelf for the bundled catalog plus explicit external install sources
  • aegis skills: top-level operator inventory, search, inspect, and install flow outside chat
  • /skills search: explicit external discovery inside the CLI
  • /skills install: explicit operator-owned install flow for extra public skills

Natural-language requests such as “search skills for research” or “install search-skill” now go through the wake shell's direct skill hub surfaces rather than model-visible skill-management built-ins.

Scheduled follow-up with cron​

Aegis also ships a built-in cron runtime for durable recurring work. It can schedule:

  • greeting jobs
  • public web-search jobs
  • prompt-based follow-up jobs

Use:

  • /cron create ...
  • /cron inspect <job-id>
  • /cron pause <job-id>
  • /cron resume <job-id>
  • /cron remove <job-id>

Natural-language requests such as “schedule a greeting every morning” or “schedule a web search every 2h” also route into this built-in surface.