Teach It Once: Skills Are Generally Available

As of July 2026, Skills are generally available in every workspace. A skill is a reusable instruction bundle: the procedure, checklist, or house style you would otherwise paste into chats forever, written once and applied by any agent that needs it.

What a skill is

One markdown file with a job. "How we write release notes." "The deploy checklist." "Brand voice rules." An agent working in your workspace discovers its skills automatically and pulls the right one in when the task matches; you never attach anything by hand.

Three kinds exist today:

• Curated skills: maintained by idapt, available everywhere.
• Your skills: written in the workspace, editable any time.
• Installed skills: added from shared sources, snapshotted so they keep working even if the source changes.

Why this beats prompt-pasting

A pasted prompt is context that dies with the conversation. A skill is versioned, shared with the workspace, and consistent: every agent applies the same procedure, and updating the file updates the behavior everywhere at once. Teams get their working agreements out of people's heads and into something an agent can follow.

Good to know

• Skills are single-file today; multi-file bundles are in development.
• Discovery is workspace-scoped: agents see the skills of the workspace they work in, capped and searchable past the cap.
• A skill never overrides your explicit instructions in a chat; it fills in the procedure when you have not specified one.

Get started

Create your first skill from the workspace's Skills page: the feature overview shows the anatomy, and Write your first skill walks through a real example in ten minutes. If you run agents already, start by turning your most-pasted prompt into a file.