IDE Extension to allow usage of SKILL.md and hooks

[mapattacker]

With the proliferation of using skills in IDE, is continue intending to include these features too? It is fast losing steam compared to other similar coding assistants. I find it difficult to continue using it despite finding it flexible and easy to setup. Thank you!

[Nyrok]

The interest in SKILL.md is really about structured instructions becoming a first-class artifact, not just a config file. The problem is that most IDE assistants still treat the system prompt as a flat text blob, so skills and constraints get mixed together with no clear boundaries.

Typed instruction blocks — role, constraints, examples, output format as separate fields — would make SKILL.md composable and inspectable instead of a monolithic markdown file that grows until nobody trusts what's in it.

I've been building flompt for exactly this, a visual prompt builder that decomposes prompts into 12 semantic blocks and compiles to Claude-optimized XML. Open-source: github.com/Nyrok/flompt

Would be great to see Continue support importing a structured prompt format as the system context, separate from per-request instructions.