15. The Skill Catalog
A skill is a packaged workflow for one business job — with defined inputs, steps, quality checks, and a defined output. The full BOB release (v2.8.0) ships over 380 skills; a starter vault stores 14 and receives the rest from the skills server or the free skill packs (see chapter 14). You don't memorise them: describe what you want in plain words and BOB routes to the right one. This section shows the shape of the library through representative examples per area.
How invocation works
A skill name like /proposal-writer is just the fastest path. Describing the job in plain English works equally well — BOB figures out the routing. The complete, always-current index is SKILLS at the vault root. In a starter vault that index lists only the local skills; ask BOB "search for a skill that does ..." and it queries the skills server. A skill that is not stored locally is read from the server, so it can be used the same way. The skills were audited against the QMS gate for v2.8.0; what that means and where to inspect it is in chapter 14.
Sales & Growth
| Skill |
What it does |
When |
lead-qualifier |
Scores a lead against your ideal customer profile |
A new prospect appears |
proposal-writer |
Interviews you about a deal, drafts the proposal |
You need to send a proposal |
sales-pipeline-report |
Aggregates deals into a pipeline health report |
Weekly or before a review |
cold-email / linkedin-outreach |
Drafts outreach in your voice |
Starting a campaign |
crm-pipeline |
Keeps leads, deals, and contacts organised |
Ongoing |
Marketing & Content
| Skill |
What it does |
When |
social-content |
Writes LinkedIn/X/Substack posts from your material |
Regular publishing |
content-repurposer |
Turns one piece of content into many formats |
You have a good article or talk |
seo-audit / website-audit |
Scores your site and lists concrete fixes |
Quarterly, or before a relaunch |
brand-voice-generator |
Captures your tone so drafts sound like you |
Once, early on |
Finance & Administration
| Skill |
What it does |
When |
invoice-collector / ar-followup |
Tracks receivables, drafts payment reminders |
Monthly |
financial-reporting |
Produces management-ready financial summaries |
Period end |
period-close-orchestrator |
Walks the full close, step by step |
Month/quarter end |
quotation-generator |
Builds priced quotes from your catalog |
A deal needs numbers |
Operations & Projects
| Skill |
What it does |
When |
meeting-intelligence |
Extracts decisions, actions, and risks from meeting notes |
After every important meeting |
project-status / project-charter |
Standard PM artifacts from your project data |
Running client or internal projects |
process-kaizen |
Maps a process and finds the waste in it |
Something feels inefficient |
root-cause-analysis |
Structured five-why / fishbone analysis |
Something went wrong |
Strategy & Management
| Skill |
What it does |
When |
ask-boardroom |
Simulates a board of advisors debating your decision |
A big call with real trade-offs |
decision-frameworks |
Expected value, pre-mortem, structured choices |
Recurring decisions |
market-sizing-analysis |
Estimates a market opportunity with sources |
Entering a new segment |
weekly-review / daily-briefing |
Your operating rhythm — priorities in, noise out |
Every day / week |
Documents & Deliverables
| Skill |
What it does |
When |
docx-tools / xlsx-tools / pptx-tools |
Reads and produces Word, Excel, PowerPoint |
Client-facing office documents |
branded-pdf / pdf-report |
Renders on-brand PDF deliverables and reports |
Anything you'd hand to a client |
excalidraw-diagrams / drawio |
Flowcharts, architecture and process diagrams |
A picture beats a paragraph |
What every skill has in common
- Defined inputs and outputs — it tells you what it needs and what you'll get
- Vault-aware — it reads your real business context, not a blank slate
- Draft discipline — outward-facing results wait for your approval
- Quality gates — governed skills carry acceptance criteria that the output is checked against