Independent fan research • directory content checked August 26, 2026
A Skill is a packaged capability you can add to ColaOS: a named bundle of instructions, templates, and sometimes scripts that Cola loads and then uses when you ask. The official FAQ describes installing one in a single line - send the address of the Skill to Cola, and Cola can install it directly - and MarsWave runs a public, curated directory of these packages at colaskill.com.
Skills are the mechanism behind a claim this site has repeated elsewhere without explaining it: that ColaOS expands capabilities through Skills over time, instead of starting from zero in every new chat. This page covers what that means in practice, what the directory actually contains, and what the public materials do not say.
This is an independent fan research site, not an official ColaOS or MarsWave property. colaskill.com is operated by MarsWave; the quotes and summaries below come from public pages, and directory contents change without notice.
Two public sources define the shape of a Skill. Neither one is marketing copy, which is why both are quoted rather than paraphrased.
“Skill 如何安装？把 Skill 的地址发给 Cola，Cola 就可以直接安装。”
ColaOS public FAQ, translated: “How do I install a Skill? Send the address of the Skill to Cola, and Cola can install it directly.”
“做完一次，打包成 Skill，下次一句话触发。”
From the same team's published product material, translated: “Do a workflow once, package it as a Skill, and trigger it with one sentence next time.”
Read together, the two lines describe a loop rather than a plug-in store. You can pull a Skill in from an address, and you can push your own repeated workflow out as a Skill. The second half is what makes the first half useful over time: the capability set is not fixed at install, it accumulates the things you actually do.
colaskill.com is not a third-party aggregator. It is a MarsWave property that presents the skill hub under the Cola brand, in two languages.
What you will find there
Categories in the directory
Labels are shown as they appear in the English view. The directory grows, so categories and entries are worth re-checking rather than trusting this list.
Three entries pulled from the curated list, as an example of the format rather than a ranking. This site does not maintain a skill list, and install counts are left out on purpose - they measure visibility, not whether a Skill is right for you.
listed author: hardikpandya
An editing pass over your draft that targets patterns typical of AI-written text, then scores the result on several dimensions.
listed author: kangarooking
Turns long source material - books, podcasts, interviews, subtitled video - into a set of callable methodology skills.
listed author: mvanhorn
Searches several social and technical platforms for a topic inside a recent window and synthesizes one cited brief.
The directory is official, but the Skills themselves are mostly authored elsewhere. The useful part of a Skill page is usually the fine print, not the pitch.
What it asks for
Several listed Skills need your own API keys, a signed-in browser session, or an extra runtime installed on the machine. That is stated on their pages, and it is the fastest way to tell how much setup a Skill carries.
What license it carries
Entries that link out to their own repository often name a license there, such as MIT or GNU AGPL v3.0. If a Skill has no source and no license, that is information too.
What it can reach
A Skill runs inside ColaOS, using the access your setup already grants. Read the instructions before installing, in the same way you would before running any script someone shared.
The line between a documented mechanism and an assumption. If a claim is not on the left, treat it as unknown.
Documented in public materials
Not stated anywhere we could verify
Answers written from the official FAQ, the published product material, and the directory pages themselves.
The official FAQ answers in one sentence: send the address of the Skill to Cola, and Cola can install it directly. In practice that address comes from a Skill page - the official directory gives every entry its own page.
Yes. colaskill.com is a skill directory run by MarsWave - the page footer reads (C) 2026 MARSWAVE PTE. LTD. and the brand line is Cola - Your AI Sidekick. It has an English and a Simplified Chinese view, curated picks and a creators view, and nine categories. This site does not maintain a parallel list, because the directory is the live source.
Most entries in the curated list carry an individual author handle rather than a MarsWave byline, and several point to their own repository and license, for example GNU AGPL v3.0 or MIT. So the Skill content itself is third-party work collected and curated in an official directory.
Not obviously. Some listed Skills describe installing into other agent environments, and their pages reference their own runtimes and command-line tools. A Skill looks less like a Cola-only plug-in and more like a shared agent-skill format that ColaOS can also load.
The public materials checked for this page do not state a price for installing a Skill, and that is worth treating as unknown rather than zero. Some Skills ask for your own API keys or a paid third-party data service, which is documented on the individual Skill pages.
Read what it asks you to provide, since some entries require API keys, a browser session, or an extra runtime. Check the license on its own repository. Then remember the obvious boundary: a Skill runs inside ColaOS with the access your setup already grants, so install the ones you would be comfortable reading the instructions of.
ColaOS calls itself an operating system rather than a chat tool. Skills are one of the few parts of that framing that can be checked by opening a page and reading it.
Persistent memory and proactive behaviour are hard to verify from the outside, and this site has been careful not to overstate them (see the note on Heart Trace). A skill directory is different: it exists, it is bilingual, it has categories, named authors, and per-skill documentation. That makes “grows through Skills” the most checkable of the product's self-descriptions - which is a reason to describe it precisely rather than admiringly.
Related reading on this site: the independent ColaOS explainer, the breakdown of why it is framed as an AI operating system, and the Windows install guide if you are setting the app up for the first time.
Source and boundary note. Statements about how Skills work come from the public ColaOS FAQ and the product material published by the same team, both archived in this site's research notes. Directory structure, category names, example entries, licenses, and setup requirements were read from the English and Chinese views of colaskill.com on August 26, 2026, and quoted or summarized rather than copied. This site is an independent fan research project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to MarsWave, ListenHub, or the ColaOS team. Nothing here is a recommendation of any Skill, and nothing here should be read as an official statement about one.