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type: index
title: Pi Skills
description: Documentation for installed agent skills — code-review, diagnosing-bugs, find-skills, grilling, handoff, implement, obsidian-vault, prototype, tdd, teach, writing-great-skills, writing-guidelines, and zim-knowledge-base.
tags:
  - pi
  - skills
  - index
  - unverified
timestamp: 2026-08-28
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# Pi Skills

Agent skills teach the agent new workflows. Skills are stored in `~/.pi/agent/skills/` (local) and symlinked from `~/.agents/skills/`.

## Installed Skills

| Skill | Source | Description |
|-------|--------|-------------|
| **code-review** | Local | Two-axis review: Standards and Spec, parallel sub-agents |
| **diagnosing-bugs** | Symlinked (.agents) | Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions |
| **find-skills** | Symlinked (.agents) | Discover and install agent skills from the ecosystem |
| **grilling** | Symlinked (.agents) | Stress-test a plan or design before building |
| **handoff** | Local | Compact conversation into a handoff document |
| **implement** | Symlinked (.agents) | Implement work from specs or tickets |
| **obsidian-vault** | Symlinked (.agents) | Search, create, manage notes in Obsidian vault |
| **prototype** | Symlinked (.agents) | Build throwaway prototypes for design questions |
| **tdd** | Symlinked (.agents) | Test-driven development, red-green-refactor |
| **teach** | Symlinked (.agents) | Teach the user a new skill or concept |
| **writing-great-skills** | Symlinked (.agents) | Reference for writing and editing agent skills well |
| **writing-guidelines** | Local | Review docs for Writing Guidelines compliance |
| **zim-knowledge-base** | Local | Search Wikipedia ZIM files for research |

## Skill Locations

| Path | Type |
|------|------|
| `~/.pi/agent/skills/` | Local skills directory |
| `~/.agents/skills/` | Shared skills (symlinked from) |

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## See Also

- [pi](index.md) — Pi configuration overview
- [[npx-skills|npx-skills]] — Skill distribution via npm