General skills

The built-in General skills every agent has, and what each one does.

The General group holds the built-in skills below. Enable one from the Pre-attached Skills tab of Add Skill, and see which are active in the agent's Skills panel. See Enable a built-in skill. In the Skills panel, the group header shows how many are active, for example 8/15 active.

Skill	What it does
AI Reasoning	Uses AI to think through complex topics, make decisions, or generate summaries. Suited to reasoning and language tasks.
Web Search	Runs a web search through the language model with web search enabled, to retrieve up-to-date information. It takes a query and optional context, and returns a summary of the results.
Web Crawl	A system skill that crawls web pages.
Knowledge Search	Searches the knowledge connected to the agent for relevant answers or references. Use it when the information is stored in your data sources.
Knowledge Lexical Search	A system skill that searches connected knowledge by matching words rather than meaning.
Knowledge Graph Search	Answers questions about entities and relationships in connected governance knowledge graphs, such as products, policies, pricing, and required documents. It is the only skill that reads a governed graph. Off by default; enable it explicitly.
Generate Custom Skill	Generates a name, description, code, and input and output schemas for a JavaScript or Python skill. Use it to create or revise a coded skill with AI assistance.
Run JavaScript	Runs JavaScript in a secure sandbox. Suited to complex calculations, data transformation, and logic that reasoning alone can't handle.
Run Python	Runs Python in a secure sandbox. Suited to data analysis, math, and complex logic.
Display Code Block	Shows a block of code with syntax highlighting.
Show Message	Shows the user a message in markdown. Best for quick updates or progress messages, not for final answers.
View Uploaded Files	Lists the files uploaded in the current session, with their names, details, and upload times.
Create File	Writes a plain text or markdown file to the execution document store, and returns the document ID.
Import External Files	Adds external files to the conversation's uploaded documents from pre-signed URLs, without loading their contents into the current message. Later skills, such as document search or extraction, can then use them.
Get Current Time	A system skill that returns the current time.
Wait	A system skill that pauses before the agent continues.

Knowledge skills need knowledge. Knowledge Search, Knowledge Lexical Search, and Knowledge Graph Search are left out of a run when the agent has no knowledge attached.

Knowledge Search or Knowledge Lexical Search? Knowledge Search finds passages by meaning, so it suits questions phrased in the user's own words. Lexical search matches the words themselves, so it suits exact terms such as product codes, policy numbers, or names.

Run JavaScript and Run Python are not your own code. The agent writes and runs code as it works. To give the agent a fixed piece of logic that you wrote, add a JavaScript Code or Python Code skill from the Skill Library tab instead. See Skill Library.

Related pages

• Document skills: the built-in skills for working with documents.
• Skills & Capabilities: every skill on one agent.

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