# Skills
Sparrow skills are reusable operating procedures stored as `SKILL.md` files.
## Progressive Disclosure
A skill can keep its main `SKILL.md` short and declare optional files that are
loaded only when the skill is explicitly invoked:
```markdown
# Skill: deep-review
**Trigger:** review, diff
**Description:** Review code changes carefully.
**References:** references/checklist.md
**Templates:** templates/report.md
**Scripts:** scripts/audit.ps1
**Assets:** assets/example.png
## Body
Short operating instructions.
```
Automatic relevance loading uses the short body only. `sparrow skills view
<name>` invokes the skill and loads declared references on demand.
## Commands
```bash
sparrow skills list
sparrow skills view <name>
sparrow skills create <name>
sparrow skills install <local-dir-or-git-url>
sparrow skills update <name>
sparrow skills prune
sparrow skills rm <name>
```
Skills also appear as slash commands using their slug, for example
`/deep-review`.