Skills

Load context on-demand instead of cramming everything into the system prompt.

What Are Skills?

Skills are reusable packages of instructions and context that agents retrieve when needed. Instead of a massive system prompt, your agent sees a list of available skills and a skill_get tool to load the full content when relevant.

Full skills documentation

Quick Start

From the Registry

1. Open your agent's settings → Prompt tab
2. Scroll to Skills
3. Click Browse → search and select a skill
4. Done — the skill's name, description, and URL are filled in automatically

By URL

Click + URL and provide:

Inline

Click + Text and write the content directly. Good for short, agent-specific instructions.

Preloading

By default, skills are loaded on-demand via skill_get. For skills the agent needs on every conversation, enable preload — the content is injected directly into the system prompt at startup.

Toggle Preload on the skill in the Prompt tab, or set it in YAML:

1skills:2  - name: pricing-rules3    skill_id: myteam/pricing-rules4    preload: true

Preloaded skills are available from turn one — no tool call needed. Use this for core reference material the agent always needs. Keep large or situational content as on-demand.

How It Works at Runtime

On-demand skills appear in the skill_get tool listing. The agent calls skill_get when the conversation matches a skill's description:

1skill_get(skill="code-review")                          → main instructions2skill_get(skill="code-review", path="references/checklist.md")  → supporting file

Preloaded skills are already in the system prompt — no tool call needed.

Content is cached per session — loading the same skill twice doesn't re-fetch.

Learn More

• Creating skills — build and publish your own
• The skill registry — browse and share public skills
• Using with other agents — install to Claude Code, Cursor, and more
• Skills overview — how skills work, the standard, and inference.sh's approach