Skill Reference
These are the default skills Dawn ships for repeatable agent behavior. Skills shape how an assigned agent works; they do not grant access to tools or sources by themselves.
Default Skills
- Archive Document Handling: inspect and extract archives before reading files inside them.
- Avatar Spritesheet: create animated Dawn agent avatar spritesheet packages.
- Dawn JavaScript Workspace Scripts: run bounded JavaScript over Dawn workspace files and generated outputs.
- Doc Coauthoring: draft and refine specs, RFCs, proposals, and runbooks.
- Document Intake And Extraction: stage binary files and choose the right document extraction path.
- DOCX Documents: read and generate editable Word documents.
- Internal Comms: draft high-signal team, leadership, incident, and operational updates.
- Memory Reading: read durable workspace memory when it is relevant.
- Memory Writing: save durable workspace knowledge intentionally.
- PDF Documents: read, review, and generate polished PDF documents.
- PPTX Presentations: read and generate PowerPoint decks.
- Security Threat Model: produce repository-grounded threat models.
- XLSX Workbooks: read and generate structured Excel workbooks.
How To Use This Reference
Open a skill page when you need to understand what the skill is for, which tool families it expects, and how it relates to agent setup.
Use Skills for the product workflow: creating, assigning, copying, overriding, and validating skills.
Validation Prompts
Use these prompts in Dawn chat to quickly validate this setup area.
List default Dawn skills that help with document and file workflows.
Which shipped skills should this agent use for memory, documents, and JavaScript file transforms?
Completion Checklist
- Skill purpose understood before assigning it.
- Required tool families available to the selected agent.
- Skill assignment tested with a representative prompt.
- Workspace overrides used only when local behavior should differ from the default.