Skills
Skills give AI workers specific procedures, expertise, or workflow patterns. On the Skills page, teams can browse built-in and custom skills separately, search, and filter by tag or creator. The Add skill menu supports building with chat, uploading a skill file, or importing from GitHub.
Overview
Add specialized procedures and reusable workflows to AI workers.
Basics
When to use skills
Skills fit image generation, document creation, review workflows, recurring research, and company-specific procedures. If a procedure should run from a trigger on a schedule or event, split it into a workflow skill so it can run with consistent inputs.
Assigning skills
Assign skills from the AI worker's Skills screen. Browse built-in and custom skills, search, filter by tags or creator, and enable only the skills needed for that worker. Non-editable standard workers block changes. Keep the list focused so the model does not choose irrelevant procedures.
Custom skills
For team-specific procedures, create a custom skill. The add menu offers building with chat, uploading a skill file, and importing from GitHub. Define purpose, inputs, steps, completion criteria, and failure handling clearly so the skill can be reused by multiple workers.
Improving skills
If a skill behaves poorly, review the description, input examples, output format, failure criteria, and workflow run history. If it is run from a trigger, also confirm whether the trigger should call a workflow skill or send a normal prompt to the worker. Check for conflicts with worker instructions, assigned knowledge, or integration permissions.
Checklist
- Extract only repeated work into skills.
- Confirm the skill explains purpose, input, and output format.
- Check that skill instructions do not conflict with worker instructions.