Introducing Skills in Bwat

We’re thrilled to share a major leap forward: Bwat now has skills. This means your AI coding agent can actively learn new abilities and get better at the tasks you need most—without you ever having to write a line of code.

Skills are like superpowers you can hand to Bwat. Need a PDF generated from a conversation? No problem. Want an Excel spreadsheet formatted just right? Bwat can do that. A Word doc with your company letterhead? Yes. A beautiful front-end design? Absolutely. And because skills are always improving, Bwat gets more capable every time you use it.

Where Skills Live

Skills are available wherever you work with Bwat:

• On the web — just log into bwat.ai and start a conversation.
• In VS Code — open the Bwat extension and run the command /skills to see every skill your Bwat has available right now.

That /skills command is your window into what Bwat can do. It lists each skill, what it does, and how to use it. No digging through menus or reading documentation—just type and see.

What Kinds of Skills Are There?

Skills span a wide range of everyday productivity and development tasks. Here are a few examples:

• Document creation & editing — Generate PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, and Word documents from simple descriptions. “Make a table of my monthly expenses in Excel” or “Turn this report into a PDF with a clean layout.” Bwat handles formatting, formulas, and styling.
• Front-end design — Ask Bwat to build a landing page, a dashboard, or a simple app interface. It can suggest layouts, colors, and responsive designs—and then write the code to make it real.
• File manipulation — Merge documents, extract data from a PDF, or convert between formats. Bwat does the heavy lifting.
• Learning new tricks — Skills aren’t static. Bwat can learn new abilities inspired by techniques from leading AI research (like the work from Anthropic you can explore here). Over time, skills become faster and more accurate based on what people ask for.

How Skills Work (in Plain Terms)

You don’t need to know anything about how skills are built. You just tell Bwat what you want, and if a skill exists for that task, Bwat uses it. If the skill isn’t quite right, you can give feedback, and Bwat improves for next time.

Think of it like teaching a coworker. The first time you ask for a PDF, they figure it out. The next time, they know exactly how to do it. Skills make Bwat smarter every day.

Get Started Right Now

If you already use Bwat, open VS Code and run /skills to see what’s available. If you’re new, head to the web app and ask Bwat to “create a PDF with a list of my tasks” or “design a simple sign-up page.” You’ll see the skill in action immediately.

Skills are rolling out now, and new ones are added regularly. We’ll keep you posted as Bwat learns even more. In the meantime, try it out and let us know what you want Bwat to learn next.

— The Bwat Team