[DOCS] Document agent.skills.max_chars and system prompt injection changes

[edenreich]

Summary

inference-gateway/cli#761 adds a new user-facing config key, agent.skills.max_chars, and changes two system-prompt behaviors. The CLI configuration reference needs to cover them.

What changed:

• New key agent.skills.max_chars (default 4000, 0 disables, env INFER_AGENT_SKILLS_MAX_CHARS): caps the rendered AVAILABLE SKILLS block in the agent system prompt. Skills past the budget are listed by name only (never a truncated description) and remain invocable via /<name>.
• The injected memory index (memory.max_chars) now truncates at a line boundary instead of mid-entry.
• The system prompt now carries a date-only Current date: line instead of a minute-resolution timestamp, so provider prompt-prefix caching survives across turns.

Example config:

agent:
  skills:
    enabled: true
    max_chars: 4000 # 0 disables the cap

Source PR: inference-gateway/cli#761

Acceptance Criteria

• agent.skills.max_chars documented in the CLI configuration reference (default, 0 semantics, INFER_AGENT_SKILLS_MAX_CHARS env override)
• Skills documentation notes the names-only overflow behavior and that capped skills stay invocable via /<name>
• Memory documentation reflects line-boundary truncation of the injected index; system-prompt docs mention the date-only timestamp

[edenreich]

@infer Can you work on this?

[inference-gateway-maintainer]

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Todos

• Explore repo structure and understand existing docs
• Add issue to Roadmap board and set Status=In progress
• Create working branch
• Document agent.skills.max_chars in CLI config reference (cli.md)
• Update skills documentation (cli-skills.md) with max_chars and names-only overflow behavior
• Update memory documentation (cli.md) with line-boundary truncation
• Update system-prompt docs (cli.md) with date-only timestamp
• Commit and push changes, create draft PR
• Set Status=QA on the board

Pull Request

#359

✅ Infer Result: Success

Updated cli.md and cli-skills.md to document agent.skills.max_chars (default 4000, 0 disables, env INFER_AGENT_SKILLS_MAX_CHARS) with names-only overflow behavior, line-boundary truncation of the memory index, and the date-only Current date: system prompt timestamp, and opened draft PR #359.

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