Skills & Capabilities

Skill & Capabilities lists the agent's pre-attached skills, the built-in skills every agent has, and lets you choose which ones the agent uses. Skills from other sources, such as Skill Library skills, sub-agents, flows, integrations, and MCP servers, appear on the canvas's Skills card instead. See Where other skills appear.

Agent Config → Skill & Capabilities, listing the agent's pre-attached skills

Reach this page from Agent Config → Skill & Capabilities in the left navigation.

The page is headed Pre-attached Skills, with the number of skills, and says "Enable the skills your agent uses to take actions, access data, and complete tasks." It has two lists:

• Active Skills — the skills the agent can use now. Each has an Actions menu.
• Skills you can add — the rest. Select Enable to make one active.

The skill list

Each row shows:

• The skill's icon (varies by type)
• The skill's name (example Show Message)
• A one-line description of what the skill does
• An Actions menu, for an active skill, or an Enable button, for a skill you can add

Built-in skills

Every agent has the same 26 pre-attached skills: 15 General skills and 11 Document skills. The General skills you will use most:

Skill	What it does
Show Message	Shows the user a message in markdown. Best for quick updates or progress messages, not for final answers.
AI Reasoning	Uses AI to think through complex topics, make decisions, or generate summaries.
Web Search	Runs a web search through the language model to retrieve up-to-date information.
Knowledge Search	Searches the knowledge connected to the agent for relevant answers or references.
View Uploaded Files	Lists the files uploaded in the current session, with their names, details, and upload times.

For every built-in skill, see General skills and Document skills.

The row's ⋮ menu

The kebab menu on each row exposes the actions available for that skill — open it on any row to see them.

Where other skills appear

This page shows only pre-attached skills. Skills you add from the other tabs of Add Skill, such as Skill Library skills, custom skills, flows, and other agents, and skills registered by connecting an integration or an MCP server, appear in the Skills card on the Builder Canvas. The card's count includes them. Select the card's View all N Skills link, where N is the count, to see the full list.

How skills relate to the canvas

The Builder Canvas has a Skills card, connected to the agent node. It shows:

• The total number of skills on the agent, from every source.
• The first few skills, each with its type, such as System Skill or Agent, and its status, such as Active.
• A View all N Skills link to the full list.
• Add Skills, which opens Add Skill.

Use this page to choose which pre-attached skills are active. Use the canvas card to see everything the agent can use.

Why this matters

This list is the planner's universe. When a user sends the agent a request, the platform's planner reads the instructions, considers the input, and picks one or more skills from this list to execute. A skill that isn't in the list cannot be used, no matter what the instructions say. A skill in the list whose description doesn't match the kinds of requests users send won't be picked, no matter how capable it is. Auditing this list — does every skill the agent needs appear? does every skill that appears earn its keep? — is the single highest-value review you can do when an agent isn't behaving as expected.

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Maintained by Abhishek Paul AI-assisted, human-approved