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Skills

Reusable, workspace-scoped capabilities you build and refine in their own chat editor.

Skills are reusable capabilities that live at the workspace level, listed and built on the Skills page. Where the agent is the one thing that answers your phone, a skill is a focused capability you author once and can reuse, edited in its own chat-driven editor.

The skills list

The Skills page lists your workspace's skills. Open one to its detail view to build and refine it.

Editing a skill

A skill is built in a chat editor that shares its primitives with the agent's Builder Chat — the same approve/reject flow, the same plan/review/auto modes, the same passive secret handling. If you are comfortable editing the agent with Builder Chat, the skill editor will feel identical; the difference is what you are shaping, not how you shape it.

Skills versus tools

  • A tool is an action the agent calls during a single call.
  • A skill is a reusable capability authored at the workspace level, refined in its own editor.

Reach for a skill when a capability is worth building once and reusing, rather than re-creating it inside one agent.

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