Built-in Skills and Factory Defaults
On a fresh install, Myrm can handle these high-frequency office tasks with zero configuration: reading documents, data analysis, web research, generating Word/PPT/Excel files, and exporting PDFs.The five skills enabled by default
Why these five and not all 144?
The factory set is deliberately small and precise: only cross-industry, locally-processed workflows. This avoids flooding the first turn with skill descriptions (which wastes tokens and invites tool-call hallucinations) while still giving you real output on your very first message. Everything else is one click away.
Three behaviors worth knowing
1
Applies to fresh installs only
The default set is written only when your skill configuration is first created. For accounts already in use, your enable/disable choices are never overwritten by defaults — not on upgrade, not when new skills arrive.
2
Bound to skills that actually exist
The default list only retains skills that currently exist. If a skill is removed or renamed in a later version, it is dropped from the defaults automatically — no dead entries are left behind.
3
Turn it off and it stays off
Disable any default skill under Settings → Skills and it is recorded in your own disabled list — it will not be re-enabled on restart or upgrade.
Adding or removing skills
- Open Settings → Skills (also reachable from the “Skills” sidebar entry).
- The “Installed” tab shows your current enabled count; check or uncheck skills in the prebuilt list.
- Enabled skills take effect on your next message — they enter the available catalog as a
name — descriptionline, and the model loads the detailed playbook only when a task matches.
Why doesn’t it come back on its own?
Disabling writes to your personal configuration, which takes precedence over any default policy. What the UI shows is always the real backend state — there is no “turned off in the UI but still running” case.
How this compares
- OpenClaw / Hermes: enable skills by default across the board — more capability, but a heavier first turn and more hallucinated tool calls on weaker models.
- OpenCode / Pi: equally clean architecture (catalog in the message, body loaded on demand), but producing office documents requires wiring up external tools yourself.
- Myrm: neither an empty start nor a stuffed one — five curated office skills out of the box, including Word/PPT/Excel generation, all visible and one click away from being disabled.