Built-in Skills

AI Positron comes with some built-in skills. Skills are reusable, filesystem-based resources that provide the LLM with domain-specific expertise (workflows, context, and best practices that transform general-purpose agents into specialists). These skills help to eliminate the need to repeatedly provide the same guidance across multiple conversations. These skills are available in all chat modes without extra setup. The AI loads them automatically when it determines that a user request matches the skill description and needs that workflow. The available built-in skills include the following:

xml-review-comments: The AI uses this skill when a request involves reviewing XML content without editing the text directly. It adds inline review comments for issues such as spelling, grammar, readability, logic, and technical accuracy. It can also resolve existing review comments by applying the suggested changes.
translate-xml-content: The AI uses this skill when a request involves translating XML technical documentation into another language. It keeps the XML structure intact, preserves markup, attributes, code elements, file paths, API names, and other technical identifiers, and then saves the translated result.
personas-roundtable: The AI uses this skill when a task would benefit from feedback from several audience points of view before a decision is made. It selects relevant personas, gathers feedback from each one, identifies conflicts between their needs, runs a compromise round, and then gives final recommendations by priority. This is useful for content, messaging, tutorials, onboarding, UX copy, and other work that involves tradeoffs between user needs.
Note:
The Personas chat mode already embeds this workflow, so it does not need to load the skill separately. In other chat modes, the AI can load the personas-roundtable skill when it determines that this type of analysis would help with the user's request.
oxygen-ai-positron-help: The AI uses this skill when a request is about AI Positron itself. It reads the official AI Positron documentation and answers questions about features, setup, custom AI actions, context prompt customization, skills, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server configuration. Its responses include links to the source documentation.
xslt-developer: When editing XSLT content, the AI uses this skill to generate more accurate, error-free XSLT code suggestions.
schematron-developer: When editing Schematron content, the AI uses this skill to generate more accurate, error-free Schematron code suggestions.
xsd-developer: When editing XML Schema content, the AI uses this skill to generate more accurate, error-free XSD code suggestions.
xspec-developer: When editing XSpec content, the AI uses this skill to generate more accurate, error-free XSpec code suggestions.