Skills

Skills are reusable instruction sets that teach AI agents how to use XainFlow for specific creative tasks. Instead of explaining your workflow from scratch every time, you load a skill and the AI agent follows the recipe — asking for inputs, building the workflow, and executing it.

Skills follow the open Agent Skills standard and work with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible IDE.

How Skills Work

A skill is a markdown document (SKILL.md format) with structured instructions. When you ask your AI assistant to use a skill, it:

1. Fetches the skill instructions from XainFlow.
2. Asks you for the required inputs (images, prompts, preferences).
3. Uses XainFlow's MCP tools to build and configure a workflow.
4. Shows a cost estimate and asks for confirmation.
5. Executes the workflow and delivers the results.

The AI assistant already knows HOW to use each XainFlow tool from the MCP tool descriptions. Skills add the what and why — the specific recipe for a creative task.

Skills Hub

The Skills Hub is a community gallery where you can discover, clone, and share skills built by the XainFlow team and other creators. Access it from the Hub tab on the Skills page.

From the Hub you can:

• Browse curated and community skills with search, category filters, and sort options.
• Clone any skill into your workspace with one click — then customize it.
• Publish your own skills to share them with the community.

tip

The Hub comes pre-loaded with official skills for common workflows like product photography, social media kits, and video promos. Start by cloning one and running it to see how skills work.

For full details on browsing, cloning, and publishing, see the Skills Hub guide.

Skill Types

Type	Created By	Visibility	Editable
Official	XainFlow team	All workspaces	No (read-only)
Global	You or your team	All projects in your workspace	Yes
Project	You or your team	Single project only	Yes

Official Skills

Curated by the XainFlow team for common use cases like product photography, social media kits, and brand asset generation. These are available in every workspace and cannot be modified.

Global Skills

Created by your team and shared across all projects in the workspace. Useful for company-wide workflows and brand guidelines.

Project Skills

Scoped to a single project. Useful for project-specific recipes that don't apply to other work.

Using a Skill

From Your IDE

Ask your AI assistant to list available skills or describe what you want to do:

You: "I want to generate product photos"

The assistant calls xainflow_list_skills, finds "product-shots", fetches its instructions, and walks you through the workflow.

You can also request a skill by name:

You: "Use the product-shots skill for this shoe image"

Example Walkthrough

Here's what happens when you use the product-shots skill:

1. The assistant fetches the skill and reads its instructions.
2. It asks for your product image (file, URL, or existing asset).
3. It lists your projects and asks where to create the workflow.
4. It builds a workflow with multiple shot types:
   • Clean product on white background (1:1)
   • Lifestyle/environmental shot (4:3)
   • Detail/macro shot (1:1)
5. It calculates the credit cost and asks for confirmation.
6. It executes the workflow and shows you the results.

Creating Custom Skills

You can create your own skills using the MCP tool or through your AI assistant.

From Your IDE

Ask your AI assistant to create a skill:

You: "Create a XainFlow skill for generating social media banners"

The assistant will:

1. Ask whether the skill should be global or project-scoped.
2. Build the SKILL.md content with proper structure.
3. Save it using xainflow_create_skill.

For a complete guide on writing skills from scratch, see Creating Skills.

Skill Structure

A skill document contains YAML frontmatter and markdown instructions:

---
name: my-custom-skill
description: What this skill does in one or two sentences.
argument-hint: [input-description]
---

# Skill Title

Brief description of what this skill creates.

## Inputs

What to ask the user for.

## Workflow Structure

How to build the workflow — node types, models, settings.

## Before Executing

Show cost estimate and ask for confirmation.

Best Practices

• Keep instructions concise. The AI already knows how each MCP tool works.
• Focus on the what (shot types, models, ratios) not the how (API parameters).
• Include default model recommendations with credit costs.
• Always ask for user confirmation before executing.

Skill Categories

Skills are organized into categories for easy discovery:

Category	Examples
Photography	Product shots, lifestyle photos, flat lays
Social	Social media kits, story templates, ad creatives
Branding	Brand assets, logo variations, style guides
Video	Video promos, animated product showcases
Marketing	Full campaigns, multi-channel content
Tools	Batch processing, format conversion, cleanup
Workflow	Multi-step automation, pipeline templates
Custom	User-defined categories

Related Pages

• Skills Hub — browse, clone, and publish skills
• Creating Skills — write your own skills from scratch
• Skills for Developers — open source repo, API access, contributing
• MCP Server — connect your IDE to XainFlow
• API Access — API keys required for MCP and skills
• Flow Studio — the workflow engine skills build on