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Building skills offline from man pages
With web access turned off, generate skills purely from system man pages and --help output.
Who it's for
Engineers on air-gapped or restricted networks who still want intelligent completions for installed tools.
The problem
Not every environment allows outbound web requests. A generator that hard-depends on web search is useless behind a firewall.
How skillterm does it
- 1
Set allow_web_search and allow_web_fetch to false in the [agent.permissions] block of config.toml.
- 2
The agent runtime still has Bash and local file access, so it reads man <tool> and <tool> --help.
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skillterm generate builds the SKILL.md entirely from those local sources.
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The completions work exactly the same at Tab time — the source of truth was local all along.
The outcome
Intelligent, documented completions in a locked-down environment, with no network egress required.