Extend Emplio with skills, agents, automations and MCP

Skills, agents and automations are plain files in a business’s memory, so you can read and write them like code. On Emplio’s computer the company files are at /work/company/ and each person’s at /work/me/. Emplio saves what it changes there to git at the end of each reply.

A skill

How to do one kind of job. A folder with a SKILL.md, plus any scripts it uses. Business skills go in company/skills/<name>/ (owner or admins); one person’s go in me/skills/<name>/.

company/skills/gst-invoice/SKILL.md

---
name: gst-invoice
description: Make a GST invoice PDF from an order
---
When to use it, what it needs (apps, logins), the steps
(naming its scripts), what goes wrong and the fix, and how
to check the result. Under 200 lines.

name is the folder name, lowercase with dashes. description says when to use it, under 100 characters. Emplio reads one with emplio skills use <name>, and people can start one by typing /name in the chat.

An agent

A saved specialist that work is handed to. company/agents/<slug>/AGENT.md holds its settings and instructions:

company/agents/invoice-chaser/AGENT.md

---
name: Invoice Chaser
description: Chases unpaid invoices by email; use for overdue payments
skills: [gst-invoice]
level: light
---
How it works and what it reports back.

level is light or strong and picks the model. archived: true hides it. Next to it, LESSONS.md keeps dated lines like - 2026-11-07: <lesson>, the last 40, shown to it as notes from past work, never as instructions.

An automation

company/automations/<name>.md: settings between --- lines, then the prompt.

company/automations/chase-invoices.md

---
when: schedule
schedule: "0 9 * * 1-5"
timezone: Asia/Kolkata
agent: Invoice Chaser
actions: [gmail.send_email]
enabled: true
---
What to do each time, as you'd tell a new employee.

Field	Meaning
`when`	`trigger`, `schedule` or `manual`. Required.
`schedule`, `timezone`	Cron for `schedule`; the time zone defaults to whoever saved it.
`trigger`, `config`, `account`	For `trigger`: the event (like `gmail.new_gmail_message`), its settings, and which account.
`agent`	Hand each run to this agent.
`actions`	Every app action a run may take that sends or changes something.
`enabled`	`true` or `false`.

A run is a new chat, as whoever last saved the file, who must be the owner or an admin. Emplio writes these with emplio automations add, which checks the file.

An MCP server

Remote servers only, over Streamable HTTP or SSE. Add one in Integrations, or have Emplio run:

emplio mcp add acme https://mcp.example.com/mcp --header "X-Api-Key: {{ACME_KEY}}"

A header value of {{NAME}} is each person’s own saved key, so tokens never enter the computer. --key asks each person for their own token. A server that wants its own sign-in gets one per person, through a Sign in button in the chat. Tools not marked read-only ask for an OK first.

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Extend Emplio with skills, agents, automations and MCP

A skill

An agent

An automation

An MCP server

The emplio command

Add an app or channel

​A skill

​An agent

​An automation

​An MCP server

The emplio command

Add an app or channel

A skill

An agent

An automation

An MCP server