Skill Templates

May 7, 2026 · View on GitHub

Six pre-built skill starters for the most common operator use cases. Each template is a complete, runnable SKILL.md with [REPLACE: ...] tokens for the parts you need to customise (topic, repo, channel, threshold, etc.).

Available templates

Template	What it does	Replace tokens
`crypto-tracker`	Daily price/volume report for one token, with anomaly alerts above a threshold.	`TOKEN_SYMBOL`, `COINGECKO_ID`, `ALERT_THRESHOLD_PCT`
`research-digest`	Daily digest of the most interesting new posts on a topic from RSS feeds and the open web.	`TOPIC`, `FEED_URLS`, `MAX_ITEMS`
`code-reviewer`	First-touch review of newly opened PRs on a watched repo (verdict + welcoming comment + label).	`WATCHED_REPO`, `REVIEW_FOCUS`, `MAX_PR_LINES`
`social-monitor`	Daily mention/keyword sweep on X and Reddit, with sentiment summary and link list.	`KEYWORDS`, `LANGUAGE`, `MIN_LIKES`
`deploy-watcher`	Watch Vercel project deploy status, alert on failures with last-success comparison.	`VERCEL_PROJECT`, `ALERT_ON`, `LOOKBACK_HOURS`
`community-manager`	Daily summary of activity in a Discord, Telegram, or Slack channel — top threads + open questions.	`CHANNEL_PLATFORM`, `CHANNEL_NAME`, `TOP_N_THREADS`

Install a template

Use ./new-from-template:

./new-from-template crypto-tracker my-token-watcher \
  --var TOKEN_SYMBOL=ETH \
  --var COINGECKO_ID=ethereum \
  --var ALERT_THRESHOLD_PCT=10

That copies templates/crypto-tracker/SKILL.md → skills/my-token-watcher/SKILL.md, replaces every [REPLACE: TOKEN_SYMBOL] etc. with your value, and registers a disabled entry in aeon.yml so you can enable it from the dashboard or CLI when you're ready.

If you don't pass --var flags, the script copies the file verbatim and prints the list of tokens that still need replacement before the skill will run cleanly.

./new-from-template --list                    # print available templates
./new-from-template crypto-tracker --tokens   # print the tokens a template uses

Template format

Every template is a single directory under templates/ containing one SKILL.md. The SKILL.md follows the standard skill frontmatter contract:

---
name: [REPLACE: SKILL_NAME]
description: One-line description of what this skill does
var: ""
tags: [...]
---

Replacement tokens use the form [REPLACE: KEY]. Keys are uppercase snake-case so they're easy to spot in a diff. The literal token [REPLACE: SKILL_NAME] is special — it's auto-set to the skill name passed to ./new-from-template (the second positional argument).

Adding a new template

Make a new directory under templates/.
Drop a SKILL.md inside, with [REPLACE: KEY] tokens for the operator-specific parts.
Add a row to the table at the top of this file.

That's it — ./new-from-template --list discovers templates by scanning for SKILL.md files under templates/, so no registry update is required.