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Skills, hooks, MCP

Extend the agent with playbooks and tools — carefully.

  • Skills — playbooks the agent should open for specialized work (UI systems, game loops, deploy checklists).
  • Hooks — shell commands on agent events; keep them fast and safe.
  • MCP servers — connect external tools/data the agent may call.
  • Plugins — package reusable behavior across repos.

Use grok inspect to see what is active. Less is more: one sharp skill file beats ten vague markdown essays. Prefer instructions that name files and commands over philosophy.

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