Skills
A skill packages a repeatable job — a procedure, a checklist, a set of steps — so you do not have to re-explain it every time. Bind a skill to an agent and it becomes part of what that agent can do.
When to use it
Section titled “When to use it”Use a skill when the how is stable and worth reusing: a weekly report with a fixed structure, a triage procedure with rules, a research method you want followed the same way every time.
| Put it in | When |
|---|---|
| The system prompt | It applies to everything the agent does |
| A skill | It is one specific job with steps, used occasionally |
| A routine | The job should also happen on a schedule |
Binding
Section titled “Binding”A skill is bound to specific agents, like a connection. Installing or creating a skill does not hand it to every agent you own — you decide which agents get it.
Binding is what keeps an agent predictable. An agent offered twenty skills spends its judgment choosing between them; an agent with three uses them well.
When an agent asks for a skill
Section titled “When an agent asks for a skill”An agent that would benefit from a skill it has not been given can request it rather than failing. The run pauses, and the conversation shows what it wants and why.
Grant it and the skill is bound and the run continues with it available. Decline and the agent carries on without it — usually by doing the job the long way.
Finding and creating skills
Section titled “Finding and creating skills”Agents can look through the skills available to them and pick a relevant one for the task at hand, rather than needing you to name it. They can also author a new skill from work you have just done together — useful when you have walked an agent through a procedure once and want it kept.
Skills you create are private to your account unless you publish them.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”- A skill is not access. A skill that reads your email still needs an email connection bound to the same agent.
- Skills are bound per agent. There is no account-wide “all agents get this”.
- Skill steps that call a connector are subject to the same approval gate as any other action.