Skills (On-Demand Knowledge)

A skill is a knowledge pack — a written playbook for a kind of task. Skills let an
agent carry a large library of know-how without stuffing all of it into every message.
Remember the slogan: abilities = tools, skills = knowledge.

Each skill has a name, a short "when to use me" description, a full body of guidance,
an on/off flag, and a mode:

• Always-on — the full guidance is included every turn.
• Selectable — only the name and description are shown; the body stays hidden until

the agent pulls it in on demand. Once loaded, it stays active for the conversation.

So the agent always sees a catalogue of what skills exist, but only pays the cost of
the heavy text when a skill is actually needed. When a selectable skill is active, a
small chip appears below the chat pill; clicking its × drops the skill and
removes its text from the agent's context.

You edit an agent's skills in its Prompts panel. Agents with the right ability can
even manage other agents' skills — for example, giving a new assistant one always-on
guidance skill plus a selectable specialist playbook. Some abilities even
ship with a bundled skill automatically; see Ability-Bundled Skills.

Related: Prompts & Context, Tools & How They're Exposed.