Skills, Profiles and Shortcuts

Skills

Skills add instructions to the agent when your message matches. A “podcast” skill might inject compression and normalization preferences whenever you mention “podcast” or “voice”. Manage them in Settings → Skills.

• Trigger types: always (injected every turn), keywords, or regex pattern.
• Body: Markdown added to the agent's system prompt when the skill matches.

Skills that come with edytlab

edytlab puts a few skills of its own (podcast cleanup, music mixing, loudness mastering and others) in ~/.edytlab/skills/ on first run, and brings them up to date at launch, except for what you have changed:

• A bundled skill you have not edited is replaced by the newer text.
• One you have edited stays as you left it; the newer text is saved beside it as <name>.bundled.md, which the app does not load, so you can compare and copy across.
• One you have deleted stays deleted.
• A skill you wrote yourself is never touched.

Saving a skill in the editor, even to turn it off, counts as an edit. To stop a bundled skill's updates, edit or delete it.

Agent Profiles

Profiles set the agent's model, tool set and behaviour per workflow, in Settings → Agents. Examples:

• Podcast profile — uses a fast, cheap model; restricts tools to load, cut, normalize, trim, render.
• Mastering profile — uses Claude Sonnet; has access to all tools; injects mastering instructions into the system prompt.

Tips and Keyboard Shortcuts

• Press ? for the full keyboard shortcut overlay.
• Drag a selection on the waveform, then press L to loop just that region.