OFL Skills

Executable agent skills for AI-assisted facilitation, following the Agent Skills specification.

Part of the Open Facilitation Library.

What Are Skills?

Skills are structured instructions that AI agents can discover and invoke to facilitate group processes. Each skill is a directory with a SKILL.md file containing frontmatter (name, description, metadata) and markdown instructions that tell an agent how to perform a specific facilitation task.

Unlike abstract facilitation patterns (described in the synthesis knowledge base), skills are executable — they can be loaded by agent platforms like Claude Code, Harmonica, or OpenClaw to actively facilitate conversations.

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md              # Required: frontmatter + instructions
├── scripts/              # Optional: executable code
├── references/           # Optional: detailed reference material
└── assets/               # Optional: templates, schemas, data files

Current Content

Facilitation Patterns (legacy format)

The patterns/ directory contains facilitation methodologies in a custom Why-How-Who YAML schema. These document what each methodology does and how to apply it, but are not yet in the Agent Skills format.

Pattern	Category	AI Suitability
Cross-Pollination	Deliberative	High
Delphi Method	Deliberative	High
Six Thinking Hats	Generative	Medium
Retrospective	Generative	Medium

The pattern schema (Why-How-Who) captures purpose, process mechanics, participant dynamics, and AI suitability. This content will inform the executable skills as they're developed.

Resources

• Facilitation Self-Assessment — Competency checklist for during-session evaluation (Lucy Chambers)

Adding Skills

To add a new skill following the Agent Skills specification:

1. Create a directory named after your skill (lowercase, hyphens only)
2. Add a SKILL.md with required frontmatter (name, description) and instructions
3. Keep SKILL.md under 500 lines — move detailed reference material to references/
4. Add scripts/ for any executable code the agent should run
5. Validate with skills-ref validate ./your-skill

Relationship to OFL

Three complementary layers:

• Patterns (synthesis/ knowledge base) — abstract facilitation methodologies
• Skills (this repo) — executable agent skills per the Agent Skills spec
• Workflows (workflows/ repo) — how real platforms orchestrate agents into complete facilitation systems

Related Repos

• synthesis — Knowledge base, research monitoring, evaluation frameworks
• workflows — Agent workflow definitions for AI facilitation platforms
• cross-pollination — Opinion exposure algorithms
• evals — Evaluation frameworks (Why-How-Who conversation signatures)

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License

MIT License