glossary
Skill
The reasoning layer of Onli AI — understands your request, gathers context, and chooses the right Routine.
The reasoning layer of Onli AI. A Skill understands what you're asking for, gathers context, and chooses the right Routine to accomplish it.
Think of a Skill like a concierge at a luxury hotel. You say what you need — "I'd like to send this to my business partner" — and the concierge figures out exactly what that means, checks the details, and sends you to the right department. The concierge doesn't do the work; they understand and direct.
How it works
A Skill operates in read-only mode. It can look at everything in the system but can't change anything. It:
- Parses your natural language input
- Resolves entities (figures out which assets, which people, which actions)
- Gathers context from the system
- Selects the appropriate Routine to execute
Key constraint: Skills can read. They cannot write. Intelligence may explore — but mutation is never implicit. All actual changes happen at the Tool layer, with your explicit authorization.