dft skills

List packaged agent skills, or show one by name. Skills are the AI-facing knowledge packs that ship with Dataface — each one teaches an AI assistant a specific authoring pattern (e.g. kpi-row, top-n-with-detail, period-comparison).

dft skills [OPTIONS] [NAME]

Arguments

Argument	Description
NAME	Skill name to show. Omit to list all skills.

Options

Flag	Description
--json	Output as JSON.

Examples

dft skills                  # List every packaged skill
dft skills kpi-row          # Show the kpi-row skill body (markdown)
dft skills kpi-row --json   # Same skill, JSON-shaped

How skills are used

• MCP server. dft mcp serve exposes skills as tools that AI agents can call.
• dft init mcp. Installs the relevant skill files into your AI client's skill directory.
• dft chat. The packaged terminal agent loads skills automatically.
• dft new face. Skills carry example faces — see dft new.

Related

• dft new face --from <skill> — scaffold a face from a skill example
• dft init mcp — install skills into AI clients
• dft mcp serve — run the MCP server
• dft chat — terminal agent that uses skills