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## The agent can write skills

With the `manage-skills` skill enabled, which it is by default, the agent can
author new skills, revise skills attached to it, and delete skills it created.
To keep the guidance and deny the ability, veto `manage_skills` in the
author new skills, revise skills attached to it, and delete a skill when you
ask it to, whoever wrote that skill. It never deletes one on its own
initiative, and the bundled core skills can't be deleted at all. To keep the
guidance and deny the ability, veto `manage_skills` in the
[Tools modal](#tool-overrides).

This is how a discovery becomes permanent: once the agent works out how some
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