Open files in Emacs

SkillFiles & storage

This skill should be used when the user invokes "/open" to open files from the latest interaction in Emacs buffers via emacsclient.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Open files in Emacs skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by xenodium/emacs-skills in skills/open/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Open files from the most recent interaction in Emacs buffers using emacsclient --eval. Only include files relevant to the latest interaction (files just generated, edited, listed, or produced by the most recent tool output), not all files mentioned throughout the conversation.

How to open

First, locate agent-skill-open.el which lives alongside this skill file at skills/open/agent-skill-open.el in the emacs-skills plugin directory.

Each file spec in :files is either a string (file path) or a plist with :file and optional :line.

emacsclient --eval '
(progn
  (load "/path/to/skills/open/agent-skill-open.el" nil t)
  (agent-skill-open
    :files (quote ((:file "/path/to/file1.txt"
                    :line 42)
                   "/path/to/file2.txt"
                   "/path/to/file3.txt"))))'

Rules

  • Use absolute paths for files.
  • Use :line when a specific line is relevant (e.g., an error location or a newly added function).
  • Locate agent-skill-open.el relative to this skill file's directory.
  • If no relevant files exist in the recent interaction, inform the user.
  • Run the emacsclient --eval command via the Bash tool.

Signals

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