Built-in skills

Catalog of the skills Curia ships with — organized by category, with action_risk levels and descriptions.

Curia ships with 50+ skills organized into functional categories. Every skill declares an action_risk level that determines the minimum autonomy score required to invoke it without explicit CEO approval.

Contact management

Skill	action_risk	Description
contact-create	low	Create a new contact record
contact-lookup	none	Look up a contact by name (supports partial matching)
contact-list	none	List all contacts
contact-rename	low	Rename a contact
contact-set-role	low	Set a contact’s role (e.g., CFO, board member)
contact-set-trust	low	Set a contact’s trust level
contact-link-identity	low	Link a channel identity (email, phone) to a contact
contact-unlink-identity	low	Remove a channel identity from a contact
contact-grant-permission	low	Grant a specific permission to a contact
contact-revoke-permission	low	Revoke a permission from a contact
contact-merge	low	Merge duplicate contacts (supports dry-run preview)
contact-find-duplicates	none	Scan for potential duplicate contacts

Email

Skill	action_risk	Description
email-send	medium	Send a new email to specified recipients
email-reply	medium	Reply to an existing email thread
email-list	none	List recent messages in an inbox
email-get	none	Fetch the full body of a specific message
email-draft-save	low	Save a draft reply for CEO review
send-draft	medium	Send a previously saved draft
email-archive	low	Archive a message
context-for-email	none	Assemble context for composing an email

Calendar

Skill	action_risk	Description
calendar-list-calendars	none	List all registered calendars
calendar-register	low	Register a new calendar
calendar-list-events	none	List events in a date range
calendar-create-event	high	Create a new calendar event
calendar-update-event	high	Update an existing event
calendar-delete-event	high	Delete a calendar event
calendar-find-free-time	none	Find available time slots
calendar-check-conflicts	none	Check for scheduling conflicts

Memory and knowledge graph

Skill	action_risk	Description
memory-store	low	Store a fact in the knowledge graph
memory-query	none	Query the knowledge graph
query-relationships	none	Look up stored relationships for an entity
delete-relationship	low	Remove a relationship from the knowledge graph
entity-context	none	Assemble entity context (facts, relationships, history) for a contact
extract-facts	low	Extract structured facts from text (system skill)
extract-relationships	low	Extract relationships from text (system skill)

Scheduling

Skill	action_risk	Description
scheduler-create	high	Create a recurring or one-shot scheduled task
scheduler-list	none	List active scheduled jobs
scheduler-cancel	high	Cancel a scheduled job
scheduler-report	none	Generate a report on scheduled task activity (system skill)

Communication

Skill	action_risk	Description
signal-send	medium	Send a Signal message
bullpen	low	Open or contribute to an inter-agent discussion thread

Web research

Skill	action_risk	Description
web-search	none	Search the web via Tavily
web-fetch	none	Fetch and extract content from a URL
web-browser	none	Interact with JavaScript-rendered pages via Playwright

Templates

Skill	action_risk	Description
template-meeting-request	medium	Generate a meeting request email
template-reschedule	medium	Generate a reschedule request
template-cancel	medium	Generate a cancellation notice
template-doc-request	medium	Generate a document request

Autonomy

Skill	action_risk	Description
get-autonomy	none	Read the current autonomy score and history
set-autonomy	critical	Change the autonomy score (CEO only)

Knowledge bases

Skill	action_risk	Description
knowledge-company-overview	none	Retrieve company overview information
knowledge-meeting-links	none	Look up meeting links and video call URLs
knowledge-travel-preferences	none	Retrieve travel preferences
knowledge-loyalty-programs	none	Look up loyalty program details

System and utility

Skill	action_risk	Description
delegate	none	Delegate a task to a specialist agent
held-messages-list	none	List messages held for CEO review
held-messages-process	low	Process a held message (identify, dismiss, or block)
executive-profile-get	none	Get the CEO’s writing voice profile
executive-profile-update	low	Update the CEO’s writing voice profile
config-store	low	Read or write operational configuration
image-generate	low	Generate an image
skill-registry	none	Search all registered skills by keyword

Building custom skills

How to create, test, and register a new skill.

Skill manifest schema

Complete reference for the skill.json manifest format.