Run your first skill
Try a one-click action on a file.
A skill is a pre-written prompt for a specific job — "summarize this file," "draft a press release," "build a board update from these spreadsheets." EasyCC ships with 70 of them, and you can write your own.
Open the Skills panel
The Skills panel lives on the right side of the EasyCC window — usually on a small icon strip you can expand. Click the icon that looks like a sparkle or "puzzle piece" to open it.
You'll see three sections:
- Suggested — skills EasyCC thinks fit your current agent
- Recently used — what you've run lately
- All skills — everything installed in this agent
Install a skill
If the skill you want isn't in your agent yet, click Browse library at the bottom of the panel. You'll see all 70+ shipped skills. Pick one (try Summarize for your first run) and click Install.
The skill is now part of this agent. Other agents won't see it unless you install it there too.
Run it
Click the skill row
In the Skills panel, click the row for the skill you want to run.
Approve it (first run only)
The first time you run a skill, EasyCC shows a quick approval card explaining what the skill will do. Click Approve and run.
This step exists so you know what's about to happen — skills run in the background and can read or change files. After the first run, the skill runs immediately when you click it.
Watch the result
The skill kicks off a chat in a new tab. You'll see Claude work through the prompt the same way it does in a normal chat — reading files, asking permission, producing output.
When it's done, the result is in your agent. For Summarize, you'll find a summaries/ folder with the summary written as a new markdown file.
Skills via slash commands
You can also trigger a skill from inside a chat by typing / followed by the skill's name — e.g. /summarize. EasyCC autocompletes as you type.
Useful when you're already mid-conversation and want to bring in a skill without switching panels.
What's next?
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