Creating Skills
Write instructions manually, use chat to generate them, or upload a SKILL.md file.
Workspace Skills
Deploy Skills to your entire team as workspace defaults or mandated rules.
Skills and Integrations
Attach integrations to a Skill so their actions activate automatically.
Skills Guide with Examples
Practical examples and a framework for building your first Skills.
How Skills work in chat
When you start a regular chat, all your active Skills are available in the background. The AI reads each Skill’s description and decides which ones are relevant to your message. When a Skill matches, its instructions are loaded into the context and followed automatically.Good use cases for Skills
- Recurring outputs. Status reports, meeting notes, and project summaries that always follow the same structure.
- Formatting rules. Always use bullet points, always reply in a specific language, always cite sources.
- Workflow guidance. How to handle a support ticket, how to draft a contract clause.
- Integration workflows. A Gmail Skill that gives the AI access to read and send emails automatically when active. See Skills and Integrations.
- Team standards. Once a Skill is ready, owners and editors can share it with the team to keep outputs consistent.
Skills in Agents and Projects
You can attach Skills directly to an Agent or a Project. Skills that you activate or workspace admins mandate in regular chats do not carry over into Agent or Project chats. An attached Skill is active for people who have access to the Skill, and they do not need to install it themselves. To attach a Skill to an Agent, open the Agent, find the Skills row below Instructions, and click Add skill. To attach a Skill to a Project, open the Project and manage Skills from the Skills card.Skills and Agents
Skills and Agents serve different purposes and work well together. An Agent is a dedicated environment configured for a specific domain, with its own instructions, knowledge, and tools. A Skill is a set of instructions that loads automatically whenever it is relevant in a regular chat. Skills extend what Agents can do. When generic instructions like tone of voice, output formats, and brand guidelines move into Skills, Agents stay focused on what makes them specific to a task. Some Agents that exist purely to apply consistent formatting or style can be replaced by a Skill entirely. A good rule of thumb: if your team has to navigate somewhere deliberately for something that should just always work, that behavior belongs in a Skill.Workspace defaults
Admins can set Skills as workspace defaults so every user in the workspace gets them active from day one, with no installation required. Workspace-mandated Skills apply automatically in regular chats and cannot be disabled by individual users. Attach required Skills separately to Agents and Projects where they should also apply. See Workspace Skills for the full admin setup.System Skills
Langdock ships with built-in Skills that require no installation. These Skills power core tasks like file generation, visualization, Skill creation, and platform guidance. Most built-in System Skills stay active across your workspace, including in Agent and Project chats. Skill Creator and Platform Help are active in regular chats and attachable in Agent and Project chats, so add them to an Agent or Project when you need them there.File generation itself runs outside of Skills, so it works even when Skills are disabled in your workspace.