Skills

Extend AI agents with domain-specific knowledge, custom workflows, and organization-specific procedures

Skills are workspace instruction packages that turn general-purpose agents into experts on your environment. Enablement and a feature attachment make a skill eligible for a product surface; eligibility does not load every skill body on every task.

Official and custom skills

CloudThinker ships a public catalog of skills that every workspace can use. A shipped skill carries an Official badge and its name is reserved, so a workspace skill cannot take it. The Skills page manages your workspace’s own custom skills.

How it works

1. Create — write a skill manually, describe it in plain language for CloudThinker to generate, or upload a .zip package.
2. Enable — toggle the skill on in your workspace. New workspace skills start enabled; disabled skills stay saved but are not eligible anywhere.
3. Attach — choose the surfaces where it applies: Chat, Code Review, Incident, Assessment, or a combination. New skills start attached to Chat; clearing all attachments hides a skill everywhere.
4. Use — Chat, Incident, and Assessment list eligible skills in the workspace catalog for load_skill. Code Review currently preloads attached skill bodies under a bounded policy.

The Skills page lists every skill with its enable toggle and feature assignments

What you can do

Capability	Description	Learn more
Create custom skills	Build workspace-private skills manually, generate them with CloudThinker, or upload a .zip package	Custom skills
Attach to surfaces	Make an enabled skill eligible for Chat, Code Review, Incident, Assessment, or a combination	Custom skills
Edit with AI	Refine an existing skill through conversation — add examples, remove ambiguity, restructure sections	Custom skills
Write effective SKILL.md files	Learn the frontmatter fields, instruction styles, and patterns agents follow most reliably	Skill format

Skills vs the knowledge base

Skills tell agents how to act; the knowledge base gives agents information to look up. They complement each other — a skill can direct an agent to consult specific documents.

	Skills	Knowledge base
Content	Rules and procedures agents follow	Documents and websites agents reference
Examples	Review checklists, naming conventions, escalation policies	Runbooks, architecture docs, compliance documents
How agents use it	Chat, Incident, and Assessment show eligible skills in the workspace catalog for load_skill; Code Review preloads attached bodies under a bounded policy	The agent receives a workspace inventory, then uses search_knowledge_base for one id or all knowledge bases
Format	A required SKILL.md entrypoint, uploaded in a .zip package	Uploaded files or crawled websites
Best for	Changing agent behavior	Adding facts and context

Rule of thumb: use a skill for rules or workflows. Use the knowledge base for facts and documents the agent can retrieve when relevant.

Get started

Custom skills

Create, enable, and attach your first workspace skill

Skill format

Learn the SKILL.md structure with a complete worked example

Knowledge base

Give agents documents and websites to reference alongside skills

Code review setup

Connect a repository and use a Code Review-attached skill on a pull request