Every person uses an AI assistant differently. Some people want help with coding. Others need a companion for creative writing. Others just want help managing their schedules and groceries. You shouldn't have to explain your preferences every time you start a conversation.
Meggy's Skills system lets the AI learn how you like to work. Skills are structured instruction sets that modify the AI's behavior for specific contexts — think of them as habits you teach your assistant. Once learned, they're automatically applied whenever they're relevant.
Behind the scenes, a context-aware router automatically selects and delivers the right skills to each conversation, backed by an automatic safety analysis pipeline.
A skill is a structured instruction set that modifies the AI's behavior. Each skill has:
Meggy comes with 63 bundled user skills across 17 categories and 14 protected system skills that power core AI capabilities. System skills are always-on and cannot be disabled — they ensure fundamental behaviors like safety guidelines, companion mode, and output formatting.
New in March 2026, Meggy ships with four household-focused skill categories designed for everyday family life:
| Category | Skills | What They Do |
|---|---|---|
| 📚 Education | Homework Helper, Math Tutor, Vocabulary Builder, Bedtime Storyteller | Guide students through problems with Socratic questioning, generate age-appropriate exercises, and create personalized bedtime stories |
| 🍳 Kitchen | Meal Planner, Recipe Finder | Create weekly meal plans considering dietary preferences and budget, find recipes from what's in the fridge |
| 💰 Finance | Budget Helper, Retirement Planner | Track household budgets and savings goals, model retirement scenarios with compound interest calculations |
| 🏠 Home | Chore Manager, Home Maintenance | Manage family chore rotations with age-appropriate assignments, generate seasonal home maintenance calendars |
| Tier | Type | Examples | Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | System | Safety, core formatting, companion mode | Always injected, protected |
| 1 | Behavioral | Clarification protocol, companion mode | Standard priority |
| 2 | Domain | Coding standards, research methodology | Context-dependent injection |
| 3 | Task | Specific workflow instructions | Highest user-defined priority |
You can enable or disable entire categories of skills at once from the Settings → Skills page. Each category chip shows a toggle indicator:
Clicking the toggle on any category chip flips all skills in that category on or off — perfect for quickly enabling the "Education" bundle when the kids are home, or turning off "DevOps" skills when you're not coding.
Categories let you toggle skills one group at a time — but plugins go further. A plugin bundles related skills, tools, hooks, agents, and safety settings into a single package that you enable or disable with one click.
Meggy ships with 14 built-in plugins spanning 8 categories:
| Category | Plugins | What They Include |
|---|---|---|
| 📚 Education | Teaching & Tutoring, Kids Mode | 8 skills, content safety filter (strict mode) |
| 🏠 Home | Home Automation, Home Management, Home Renovation, Elder Care | 12 skills, smart device hooks |
| 💪 Health | Doctor & Health, Fitness & Training | 6 skills, medical disclaimer |
| 💼 Productivity | Work Productivity | 11 skills, Google Workspace tools |
| 💻 Coding | Developer Toolkit | 17 skills, terminal access with approval gates |
| 💰 Finance | Finance & Budgeting | 4 skills |
| ✍️ Writing | Content Creator | 7 skills |
| 📊 Business | Sales & Research | 4 skills |
Enable a plugin from Settings → Plugins and all its components activate together — skills turn on, hooks register, tool permissions apply, and safety filters engage. Disable it and everything reverts cleanly.
Plugins that include content safety (like Kids Mode) automatically raise Meggy's content filter level. The filter can only be raised, never lowered, so enabling Kids Mode alongside Developer Toolkit gives you coding assistance with child-safe language.
You don't need to be technical to create your own skills. Meggy includes three system skills that guide you through the process:
Just say "I want to create a new skill" or "Save this as a skill" and Meggy will walk you through it.
Not every skill is injected into every conversation — that would waste tokens and confuse the AI. The skill router analyzes each incoming message and selects only the most relevant skills:
For example, if you ask about cooking, your meal planner and recipe finder skills kick in. If you ask about your kid's homework, the education skills activate. The selection happens automatically — you don't have to do anything.
Skills go through a managed lifecycle:
The AI can manage its own skills during conversations:
skill_create — Propose a new skill from conversation contextskill_update — Modify an existing skill's body or metadataskill_research — Research a topic and generate a new skill from the findingsskill_activate / skill_deactivate — Toggle a skill's active statusskill_list — List all skills with optional filteringskill_get — Retrieve a specific skill by IDskill_delete — Remove a user-created skillThis self-modification capability means Meggy can learn and adapt its behavior over time based on your preferences and workflows. The more you use it, the better it gets at understanding how you work.
How do you know if a skill is actually helping? Meggy tracks skill performance automatically and surfaces the results so you can make informed decisions.
Every active skill gets a quality score from 0 to 100, based on four signals:
Scores update automatically as you use Meggy. You can see the current score for any skill in its detail view.
Want proof that a skill makes a difference? Run an A/B comparison — Meggy sends the same prompts with and without the skill enabled, then judges which responses are better. You get a clear winner verdict with a confidence score.
Meggy runs a background check every 24 hours looking for skills whose quality is declining. If a skill's score drops significantly or users start stripping it out of conversations, you'll see an alert in Settings → Skills with the severity and possible causes.
You can dismiss the alert, re-evaluate the skill, or quarantine it until you've had time to investigate.