Changes to skills, tools, and MCP servers apply to new sessions. A chat that is already running keeps the setup it started with.
Capabilities
Open Capabilities from the sidebar. It has three tabs: Skills, Tools, and MCP.Skills
A skill is reusable know-how the agent loads when it is relevant. Mibyan also learns skills from your work.
Search the list, sort by Most used or A to Z, and see how many times each was used. Enable all, Disable all, and Disable unused change many at once. You can edit a skill, or archive it. An archived skill is not deleted, and can be restored later with
mibyan curator restore.
A background curator reviews agent-created skills and archives stale ones. It never touches built-in or hub skills. Pause, resume, or run it from Command Center, Maintenance.
The Skills Hub
The hub is where you find and install more skills from the official index, GitHub, and community sources.1
Search or browse featured skills
Results show how many were found and how quickly. A hub that times out is listed so you know.
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Preview
Read the skill’s
SKILL.md and see its files before you install.3
Scan
A security scan gives a verdict of Safe, Caution, or Dangerous, lists findings, and shows the policy: install allowed, review before installing, or blocked by policy. Each skill also shows its trust level: builtin, trusted, or community.
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Install
Install, and later Update installed or Uninstall. Errors include an action log.
Tools (toolsets)
A toolset is a group of capabilities such as terminal, web search, file work, memory, and delegation. Turn each on or off. A toolset shows Configured or Needs keys.- Providers. Some toolsets can use different backends. For web, choose one for Search and another for Extract. The active one is marked.
- Execution backend. Choose where terminal commands run. Each option shows Ready, Needs setup, or Unavailable, and you can pick one now even if setup is pending (commands fail until it completes).
- Setup. Some backends need a one-time install, run from the app.
- Keys. Add the credential a tool needs right there. Values are hidden until you reveal them.
- Vision uses your auxiliary model configuration, so the image-capable model is chosen in Settings, Models.
MCP servers
MCP connects the agent to tools that live in other services. You manage servers in Capabilities, MCP or Settings, MCP.- Servers
- Catalog
- Import
- New server takes a name and a JSON config, for a stdio command or an HTTP URL.
- Test connection reports how many tools it exposes.
- Enable or disable a server, or a single tool. It applies to new sessions.
- A server can show Connecting, Needs authentication (choose Authenticate, and a browser opens), Error, or Off.
- Reload MCP refreshes tool schemas for fresh turns.
- Each server shows how many tools, prompts, and resources it offers, an estimate of tokens per call, and uses in the last 30 days. Servers you never use are flagged unused.
mibyan:// link can offer to add an MCP server. The app shows the exact configuration and where it came from, and adds it only if you confirm. Only http and https URLs are accepted, the config is limited to 32 KB, and a server that runs a local command carries an extra warning: continue only if you trust the source.
The agent can also offer to install, enable, or authorize a server inside a conversation, from the Mibyan-approved catalog. It always asks first.
Plugins
There are two kinds, shown in Settings, Plugins:
To install a plugin from a repository, choose Install plugin and paste the git URL. Before anything is installed, the app inspects the repository and shows what it contains (an agent plugin, a desktop UI, or both), where each part installs, and a link to the source. Pick the components, optionally enable the agent plugin after install or force reinstall, then Install. It warns about insecure
http or local URLs, and lists any environment variables the plugin needs.
Scheduled jobs
A scheduled job (also called a cron job) runs a prompt for you on a timetable and delivers the result. Open Scheduled jobs from the sidebar.1
Choose New cron
Or start from a Blueprint, a ready-made automation you fill in and schedule.
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Write the prompt
For example: Summarize my unread Slack threads and email me the top 5.
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Pick the frequency
Daily (9:00 AM), Weekdays, Weekly (Monday), Monthly (the first day), Hourly, Every 15 minutes, or Custom. Custom accepts cron syntax such as
0 9 * * *, or phrases like every hour or weekdays at 9am.4
Choose where the result goes
This desktop, Telegram, Discord, Slack, or Email. The chat platforms need a home channel set first.
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Optionally choose a model
Or use the default global model.
/loop re-runs a prompt on an interval, and the composer suggests Schedule this when a request sounds recurring.
Webhooks
Webhooks let other systems start the agent by sending an HTTP event. They are their own gateway platform, so enable them first, and restart the gateway when asked.
When you create a subscription the app shows its webhook URL and a secret, shown only once, so copy it right away. Subscription changes hot-reload once the receiver is running, and a disabled subscription rejects incoming events.
Messaging platforms
Open Connections from the sidebar to let people talk to your agent from chat apps. Each platform shows a state: Connected, Connecting, Needs setup, Restart needed, Retrying, Startup failed, Error, Disabled, or Messaging gateway stopped.
Every platform has a setup guide link. Follow it, save, then enable the platform.
Security and pairing:
- New users can appear as pending pairing requests. Approve one to let that person talk to the agent, or Revoke a user, who then stops being recognized on their next message.
- Too many failed approvals lock the platform out for a while.
- Credential changes take effect after a gateway restart. Use the status bar or the banner in the page.
- The home channel is where the bot sends things you did not ask for in the moment, such as scheduled job output and reminders.
/handoff, and resumed in Desktop later.
Next: the settings reference
Every settings page, with what it changes.