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Skills are instruction packages that turn general-purpose AI agents into domain experts. Instead of repeating the same context in every conversation, you write it once as a skill—your team’s coding standards, review checklists, incident procedures, compliance rules—and the agent applies it automatically. Skills bridge the gap between what AI agents can do and what your organization needs them to do.

What you get

Custom Skills

Create workspace-private skills with your organization’s specific knowledge, standards, and procedures. Write them manually or let AI generate them for you.

Feature Assignment

Assign skills to specific features like Code Review, Incident Response, or Assessment. Each feature only loads the skills relevant to its domain.

AI-Assisted Creation

Describe what you need in plain language and let AI generate a complete skill for you. Edit and refine it with AI assistance at any time.

How skills work

1

Create a skill

Write skill instructions manually or generate with AI.
2

Enable it

Toggle the skill on in your workspace. Disabled skills are saved but not applied.
3

Assign to features

Choose which features should use the skill—Code Review, Incident, Assessment, or any combination.
4

Agent applies automatically

When an agent runs a task for an assigned feature, it loads the skill instructions and follows them alongside its default behavior.

What a skill looks like

A skill is a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter. Here’s a minimal example:
---
name: pr-size-limits
description: Enforce PR size limits and flag oversized changes
---

## Rules

- Flag PRs with more than 500 lines changed as "needs splitting"
- Warn on PRs with more than 10 files changed
- Suggest logical split points when flagging oversized PRs

## Exceptions

- Auto-generated files (migrations, lockfiles) do not count toward line limits
- Documentation-only PRs are exempt from file count limits

Next steps

Custom Skills

Learn how to create, upload, and manage workspace-level skills.

Skill Format

Understand the SKILL.md file structure, frontmatter, and best practices for writing effective instructions.