Announcement · May 18, 2026 · 4 min read
Introducing Skills in Company Agents.
A Skill is the packaged how-to an Agent picks up. The runbook a new hire reads on day one, except the hire is an AI agent that learns it in seconds.
A Skill in Company Agents is a packaged how-to that an Agent picks up. It is a markdown file with the instructions for one job, plus an allowlist of Tools the Agent can use to do it, plus a few opinionated defaults. Attach a Skill to an Agent and that Agent knows how to do the job. Remove it and the Agent forgets.
Why Skills exist
Agents without Skills are general-purpose, which sounds nice and produces uneven work. The same agent that built three landing pages last week does not automatically know how to build a SEO-optimised product page this week. You can tell it the difference each time, or you can hand it a Skill that contains everything you would say.
What a Skill contains
Three things. A markdown file with instructions, written for the Agent the way you would write a runbook for a new colleague. An allowlist of Tools the Agent can call while running this Skill. Defaults for the things this Skill almost always wants: model, temperature, retry behaviour.
A Skill is the way you teach an agent a job once, instead of every time.
The shorthand
How Skills compose
An Agent can have many Skills. The Skill that gets used depends on the Issue the Agent picks up. A research Agent might have one Skill for competitor research, another for site audits, another for keyword research. The right Skill loads for the right Issue.
What ships today
Skills are generally available. A starter library covers common jobs: site audits, landing pages, social posts, sales outreach, customer support replies. You can write your own as a markdown file in the workspace.