Skills
The Skills view lets you give agents extra, composable capabilities. A skill is a self-contained bundle of instructions and knowledge that mixes into an agent’s prompt — a lightweight way to specialize an agent without editing its template.
What a Skill Is
Skills are defined as markdown files. Each one teaches an agent how to do something specific — follow a coding convention, use a particular tool, apply a review checklist — and is written in a portable, ecosystem-compatible format.
Enabling and Disabling
From the Skills view you can turn individual skills on or off per agent. Enable a skill and it becomes part of that agent’s behavior; disable it and the agent goes back to its baseline. This makes it easy to dial an agent’s focus in or out without touching its underlying configuration.
How Skills Work
When an agent runs, its enabled skills are mixed into the prompt it operates from. Because skills are additive and composable, you can stack several on one agent to combine capabilities.
Skills are a lighter-weight alternative to customizing an agent template. Reach for a skill when you want to nudge an existing agent’s behavior; customize the template when you want to change the agent itself. See Agents for the difference.