AI

Inside Skink: Ctrl+E, then help ai.

Skink talks to an ACP agent it starts in the background (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, opencode, Goose, Antigravity, Codex), or to EveryAI's agents inside EveryAI.

| Key | Does | |---|---| | Ctrl+G | the prompt box, for the selection (or the code around the cursor) | | Alt+Shift+A | the agent panel: a chat with tool calls and the plan (:agent [MESSAGE]) | | Alt+Shift+E | send errors to the agent (:agent errors) |

## The prompt box

Enter sends, Alt+Enter adds a line, Shift+Tab changes mode, Tab cycles the model, Up/Down history, Esc closes (and cancels while it works).

- **rewrite** / **implement**: the answer appears as a diff in the file. y accept, n reject, u undecided, Up/Down or ] [ move, Enter applies (undecided count as accepted), a accepts all, Esc discards. One undo step. - **ask**: the answer streams into a read-only tab. - **search**: the hits open in a results tab.

Context chips: @file, #rule (AGENTS.md / AGENT.md walk-up and .skink/rules/*.md), @selection, @diagnostics, @terminal. Slash commands: /model NAME, /ask, /search, /implement, /rewrite.

Answers from rewrite and implement are code; ask for an explanation and it comes as comments. An answer without code opens in an "AI answer" tab.

## The agent

Files the agent writes are staged and open in the refactor preview when its turn ends (:review reopens them). Permission requests show a dialog: Up/Down, Enter or 1-9, Esc rejects. :agent cancel stops the turn, :agent stop ends the agent, :agent send sends the selection or the terminal's screen. :model [NAME] shows or sets the model for this run.

## Settings

json "ai.agent": "auto", "ai.model": "default", "ai.effort": "default", "ai.model.rewrite": "opus 5.5", "ai.effort.rewrite": "low"

- ai.agent: auto tries Claude Code first (claude-code-acp, or your claude through npx, reusing its login), then gemini, opencode, goose, agy. Or a name (claude, gemini, opencode, goose, antigravity, codex; case, spaces, - and _ don't matter), or a command: ["my-agent", "--acp"]. Missing adapters run through npx when they can. - ai.model: a model the agent offers; loose names work (opus5.5, claude-opus-5-5). - ai.effort: low, medium, high, max (Claude Code: 4k / 10k / 20k / 32k thinking tokens). - Per mode: .rewrite, .ask, .search, .implement.

Saving a change to these tests the agent with a one-line chat in a throwaway folder and shows "Claude Code ✓" or why not. :agents lists the agents and the last check; :agents check runs it now. :settings puts a reference of agents, models and effort at the top of the file.