Skills
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Skills are reusable prompt templates that shape how the AI behaves. When you invoke a skill, its instructions are injected into the conversation , like giving the AI a specialist hat to wear ⚡
A skill is a set of instructions that changes how the AI approaches a conversation. It could tell the AI to write in a specific style, follow a particular process, or focus on a domain.
Skills are reusable, create one and use it across any conversation or agent. They keep your prompts consistent without retyping the same instructions every time.
idapt includes built-in instructions for all tool groups directly in the system prompt, files, code execution, tasks, and more. No setup needed.
Every skill is one of two kinds. Curated skills are built in and always available to everyone, ready to use as they are. Your skills are ones you author and can edit.
Open a new chat and every skill you can use is listed there, with a search box above it. The list is grouped into categories such as Research, Images, Video, Code and Computers, with the most useful ones under Recommended at the top. Each category has its own colour, so a skill looks the same wherever you meet it.
Search filters every group at once. Type what you want to do rather than the name of the skill: the search also looks at each skill's description and tags.
Hover a skill and click the star to pin it. A pinned skill is offered to you again later, in the row above the message box, whenever it fits what you are writing.
The same catalog is on the web at idapt.app/skills, one page per skill, so you
can read what a skill does before you sign in and open it in a chat
in one click. Each category also has its own page, at
/skills/category/research, /skills/category/automation and so on.
Some skills do more than write. The ones under Agents create a real agent for you, with its tools and its autonomy level already set, and the ones under Automation create a real scheduled trigger. You fill in the form, and the work happens 🤖
Skills that run on a schedule ask for the timing with a picker, not a text box: pick how often, at what time, and in which timezone. Idapt turns that into a schedule the runner has already accepted, so a recurring job cannot end up firing at an hour you did not choose.
Author your own skills in the Skills section (from
the sidebar). A skill is a name, a short description, and one set of
Markdown instructions, the SKILL.md body.
Open Skills from the sidebar
Click New skill and give it a name
Write the instructions in the Instructions box
Save, your skill is ready to use
Write skill instructions the way you'd brief a colleague. Open a skill and choose Use in new chat to try it right away.
Type /in the message box to see available skills, then
select or type the skill name. The skill's content is injected into
the conversation's context.
You can invoke multiple skills in the same conversation. Each one adds its instructions to the AI's context.
Your agentsautomatically know about the skills in your workspace, the curated ones plus any you have authored. An agent picks the right skill for a task on its own and loads its full instructions when it needs them. There is nothing to attach or set up.
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