Usage patterns
This page describes how Symposium fits into your day-to-day workflow.
Skills activate automatically
When you ask your AI assistant about a crate in your project, Symposium checks your dependencies and loads matching skills. You don’t need to do anything special — just work as you normally would.
For example, if your project depends on tokio and a skill exists for it, your assistant will receive that guidance whenever it’s relevant.
Browsing available skills
To see which skills are available for crates in your current project:
symposium crate --list
To get guidance for a specific crate:
symposium crate tokio
Hooks run in the background
If your agent supports hooks (e.g., Claude Code), Symposium can intercept events like tool use and apply checks automatically. Hooks are configured by plugins — you don’t need to set them up yourself.
Keeping things up to date
Plugin sources are checked for updates on startup. You can also update manually:
symposium plugin sync
This fetches the latest skills and hooks from all configured git-based plugin sources.