What BYB skills are
In BuildYourBrain, skills are installable workflow instructions that help an agent work with a /Brain more effectively.
They are not the /Brain itself. They are the workflow layer around it.
Where they appear
Skills appear in two places:
- on the questionnaire result page as recommended next steps
- in the live skill catalog, where you can browse and copy install commands
The catalog now has two layers:
- shipped BYB skills with direct BYB install guidance
- curated external skills and adjacent tools from the wider ecosystem
The external section is there for discovery, not to imply BYB maintains or supports those projects.
Install behavior
For supported platforms, the site shows the destination path for each skill (e.g. ~/.claude/skills/brain.md). Copy the skill content from the skill detail page and save it to that path.
OpenClaw stays in the flow through prompt-based guidance rather than a file copy.
Source of truth
The website reads shipped skill definitions from the repository so the catalog and detail pages stay aligned with the actual skill files.