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A skill is a saved set of instructions for the agent — a repeatable task or a house style. “How we write case studies”, “our weekly report format”, “the checklist for onboarding a new client”. The agent loads a skill when it’s relevant, or when you ask for it. A skill is an entry, so it lives in a folder, and the folder decides who can use it. A skill in your private folder is yours alone; a skill in a shared folder works for everyone who can see that folder.

Creating a skill

Create one from the New menu: choose More types…, then Skill. A skill has three parts:
  • Name — what you’ll call it.
  • Description — one line saying when the skill applies. This matters most: the agent reads skill descriptions to decide which one to use, so describe the situation (“Use when writing a client case study”), not just the topic.
  • The body — plain instructions: the task, the steps, the tone, whatever the agent should follow. No special format is required.
For example, a “Weekly report” skill might describe which folders to pull updates from, the section order, and how long each section should be.
Just finished walking the agent through something you’ll want again? Ask it to write the skill for you: “save what we just did as a skill”. It turns the steps you worked out together into a skill entry, asks which folder to keep it in, and you can edit it afterward like any other entry.

Using a skill

You don’t have to do anything special. When a request matches a skill — “write up the Meridian project as a case study” — the agent loads the matching skill and follows it. To choose a skill yourself, start your message with / and pick one from the list, or name it: “use the weekly report skill”.

Skills that come with Studiograph

The agent also has built-in skills for Studiograph’s own work — building artifacts, working with datasets, laying out paged documents, and writing new skills. On Studiograph Cloud, the Getting Started folder adds house-style skills for presentations, publications, diagrams, infographics, landing pages, and social media, plus skills for working with data and applying your brand. Edit them to match how your team works.