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A skill is a saved set of instructions the AI Companion follows when a request matches. It is plain Markdown: a name, a one-line description, and a body of steps. There is no separate model, runtime, or tool behind a skill. The companion reads the body inside its own turn and does what it says with the tools it already has. Skills are how a team turns a workflow that worked once into one that works every time, for everyone. “Monday pipeline review”, “pre-call brief for enterprise accounts”, “log a referral the way we do it” are all skills.

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Where skills come from

Every skill except platform skills belongs to the team. Any member can see, edit, deactivate, or delete it in the Skills tab.

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How the companion uses a skill

1

It sees the catalog

At the start of every conversation the companion is given the name and description of every active skill on the team. That is all it sees at this point, which is why the description matters so much.
2

It matches a request

When your request aligns with a skill’s description, the companion loads the skill’s full body. It prefers a matching skill over improvising a workflow from scratch.
3

It follows the body

The steps run inside the companion’s normal loop: plan, call tools, ask for approval on writes, reply. If the body introduces steps the companion did not anticipate, it re-plans around them.
4

It tells you if the skill could not load

If a skill is missing or fails to load, the companion says so and handles the request from first principles rather than pretending.
You can also invoke a skill directly by naming it: “run the Monday pipeline review”.

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The Skills tab

Open the companion and switch to Skills. From there you can:
  • Create a skill with the form: name, description, and content.
  • Ask the companion to create one with you. The tab offers “Help me create a skill together”, which starts the guided flow described in Creating skills.
  • Import a skill from GitHub or a file.
  • Edit, deactivate, or delete any skill. A deactivated skill is kept but hidden from the companion; use it to pause a skill without losing it.

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Limits

The content limit is generous on purpose, but a skill that approaches it is usually two skills. Around 1,500 words is a good ceiling for a body the companion can follow reliably.

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Skills and routines

A skill is instructions; a routine is a trigger. When a skill describes something that should run on a schedule, “every Monday at 9am”, wire it into a routine whose instruction invokes the skill. The routine’s write policy controls what the skill may change while running unattended.

Creating skills

The structure of a good skill and the guided creation flow.

Importing agent skills

Bring in skills written in the open Agent Skills format.