Windsurf: Devin's @ Skills Menu Now Lists Your Own User-Level Skills
WindsurfWindsurf's Devin web app now lists a user's user-level skills under the composer's @ Skills category. Mentioning one of those skills in a message invokes it, so a regular user can reach their own skills without leaving the composer. The same release also gave a plugin's skills, rules, hooks and MCP servers a single item view.
Key Takeaways
- The composer's @ Skills category now lists a user's own user-level skills, so personal skills sit in the same menu as other mentionable items.
- Mentioning a user-level skill in a message invokes it, which makes a skill reachable at the moment a request is written.
- The change lets a regular Devin user reach their own skills without leaving the message box.
- It was announced in Devin's October 28, 2026 release notes, in the same item as a unified plugin item view.
- That plugin view opens a plugin's skills, rules, hooks and MCP servers together in one place.
- The release note is brief, so ordering and team-level skill behavior are unspecified.
Your Own Skills, One @ Away
Windsurf's Devin web app now surfaces user-level skills in the composer. The @ Skills category lists the skills a user has set up at the user level, and mentioning one of them invokes it. Until now, reaching a personal skill from the composer was not something the @ Skills category offered, so this change closes that gap for everyday users.
How It Works
The flow stays inside the message box a user already types into. Typing @ opens the mention menu, the Skills category shows the user's own skills, and picking one in a message calls that skill. The skill runs as part of the request, the same way a mentioned skill would.
Context: A Unified Plugin View
The same release note also describes a related change to plugins. A plugin's skills, rules, hooks and MCP servers now open in one item view, instead of being viewed separately. This is a separate presentation change for plugin contents. The user-level skills listing in the composer is the part that adds a new way to invoke a skill.
What the Release Note Says
The October 28 section states only this: a plugin's skills, rules, hooks and MCP servers open in one item view, and the composer's @ Skills category lists your user-level skills, with mentioning one invoking it. Details beyond that, such as how skills are ordered or whether team-level skills appear the same way, are not specified.