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Skills
The working notes the assistant follows to drive Illustrator and Rhino on your computer, and where to read them.
Settings, Skills: one row per piece of software the assistant can drive
A skill is a set of working notes: how to open a file in that program, how to draw a curve, how to export, what to check before saving. The assistant loads them the moment a job needs that program, which is the Loading working notes phrase in the tool strip. Today there are two, Adobe Illustrator and Rhino, and View notes on each opens the notes themselves so you can read what it will do before it does it.
Where they come from
The notes are written and kept by DuoHand and marked as such on the row. They are updated when the program changes or when a better way of doing a step is found.
What they are not
They are not your taste and not the brand's: those live in the agents and the brand pack. A skill knows how to drive the software; the agent knows what to make with it. Agents and their training and Brand pack are those pages.
On your computer
A skill only runs through Bench on a machine you have connected, and every step that writes a file or runs a command asks you first. What Bench can reach has the permissions.
Questions
Skills
Can I write my own skill?
Not today. The two rows are the two programs the assistant can drive; a third arrives when its notes do.
The notes could not be opened.
The row says so and offers to try again; it is a fetch that failed, not a note that is missing. If it fails twice, write to [email protected].