> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cloudthinker.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Skills > Extend AI agents with domain-specific knowledge, custom workflows, and organization-specific procedures Skills are instruction packages that turn general-purpose agents into experts on your environment. You write your team's context once — coding standards, review checklists, incident procedures — and agents apply it automatically on every assigned task. Agents arrive knowing general best practices, not your conventions. Skills close that gap: instead of restating the same rules in every prompt, you encode them once, and one senior engineer's expertise becomes a standard the whole workspace inherits. ## How it works 1. **Create** — write a `SKILL.md` file manually, or describe what you need in plain language and let AI generate it. 2. **Enable** — toggle the skill on in your workspace. Disabled skills are saved but never loaded. 3. **Assign** — scope the skill to the features where it applies: Code Review, Incident, Assessment, or any combination. 4. **Apply** — when an agent runs a task in an assigned feature, it loads the skill and follows the instructions alongside its default behavior. Custom Skills management page showing skill cards with enable toggles and feature assignment checkboxes

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 or generate them with AI from a plain-language description | [Custom skills](/guide/skills/custom-skills) | | Assign to features | Scope each skill to Code Review, Incident, or Assessment so it loads only where it belongs | [Custom skills](/guide/skills/custom-skills) | | Edit with AI | Refine an existing skill through conversation — add examples, remove ambiguity, restructure sections | [Custom skills](/guide/skills/custom-skills) | | Write effective SKILL.md files | Learn the frontmatter fields, instruction styles, and patterns agents follow most reliably | [Skill format](/guide/skills/skill-format) | ## Skills vs the knowledge base Skills tell agents how to act; the [knowledge base](/guide/knowledge) 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 | Loaded automatically for assigned features | Searched with `#kb` or referenced automatically in always-available mode | | Format | A `SKILL.md` file (Markdown with YAML frontmatter) | Uploaded files or crawled websites | | Best for | Changing agent behavior | Adding facts and context | Rule of thumb: if the agent must follow it on every run, write a skill. If the agent should look it up when relevant, add it to the knowledge base. ## Get started Create, enable, and assign your first workspace skill Learn the SKILL.md structure with a complete worked example Give agents documents and websites to reference alongside skills Connect a repository and see an assigned skill applied to a real PR