Skill Entries

Skills define what Warden analyzes and when.

Fields

namestring

Skill name or path.

pathsstring[]

Files to include as glob patterns.

ignorePathsstring[]

Files to exclude as glob patterns.

failOnseverity

Minimum severity to fail: critical, high, medium, low, info, off.

reportOnseverity

Minimum severity to report.

remoteoptional

GitHub repository for remote skills: owner/repo or owner/repo@sha.

modeloptional

Override the main agent model for this skill. See Models and Runtimes.

maxTurnsnumber

Optional max agentic turns per hunk.

Filters

Use paths and ignorePaths to scope a skill:

warden.toml

[[skills]]
name = "api-review"
paths = ["src/api/**/*.ts"]
ignorePaths = ["**/*.test.ts"]

[[skills.triggers]]
type = "pull_request"
actions = ["opened", "synchronize"]

Skill References

warden.toml

# Built-in skill
[[skills]]
name = "security-review"

# Relative path
[[skills]]
name = "./custom-skills/my-review"

# Remote skill
[[skills]]
name = "api-review"
remote = "your-org/warden-skills"

# Pinned remote skill
[[skills]]
name = "api-review"
remote = "your-org/warden-skills@abc123def"

See skill discovery for resolution order.