Creating tiles

Learn how to create your own skills, docs, and rules to share with your team

This section covers how to create custom Tessl packages (tiles) containing skills, documentation, and rules tailored to your team's specific needs.

When to create tiles

Create custom tiles when you want to:

• Codify team standards - Capture your coding conventions, best practices, and style guidelines as rules

• Share procedural knowledge - Document workflows and processes as skills that team members can follow

• Document internal libraries - Generate and package documentation for your private codebases

• Ensure consistency - Make sure everyone on your team follows the same practices automatically

What can you create?

Skills

Procedural workflows that guide agents through complex tasks step-by-step.

Example use cases:

• API testing workflows

• Database migration procedures

• Deployment checklists

• Code review processes

Learn more: Creating skills

Documentation

Technical documentation for libraries and frameworks that agents can query on-demand.

Example use cases:

• Internal library API documentation

• Framework usage guides

• Architecture decision records

• Technical specifications

Learn more:

• Creating documentation - Manual documentation creation

• Autogenerating documentation - Automated docs from code

Rules

Mandatory coding standards and conventions that agents always follow.

Example use cases:

• Error handling patterns

• Validation requirements

• Response format conventions

• Security best practices

• Naming conventions

Learn more: Rules are included in tiles - see Developing tiles locally

Development workflow

1. Develop locally - Create and test your tile in your project

   • See Developing tiles locally

2. Package as a tile - Structure your skills, docs, and rules into a tile format

   • Skills: Creating skills

   • Docs: Creating documentation or Autogenerating documentation

3. Distribute - Share your tile with your team or the community

   • See Distributing via registry

Quick links

Creating skills

Creating documentation

Autogenerating documentation

Developing tiles locally

Related documentation

• Glossary - Understanding tiles, skills, docs, and rules

• Distributing via registry - Publishing your tiles

• Configuration files - Tile configuration reference