Skills Studio
Reusable instructions for the way you work.
A skill tells an AI tool when and how to do a task. Write one beside your notes, then choose the tools that use it.
Two ways people use Skills Studio
Both start in the same place and use the same skills. They differ in who the skill is for.
You are teaching your own AI tools
You explain the same thing to your AI every week: how you like meeting notes written, which folder research goes in. A skill is that explanation, written once and read by every AI tool you use.
You edit it in the same editor as your docs. There is no publish step.
Write a skill
Turn a task you repeat into instructions your AI can follow, by hand or with an agent.
Find and install skills
Browse the catalog, preview a skill, and choose the tools that get it.
Symlink skills
Point one tool's skills folder at another so both read the same skills.
Skills OpenKnowledge ships
What each built-in skill does, and how to install or remove it.
You are setting your team's skills up
Someone has been asked how the team should manage skills: where they live, how a person gets them, how a fix reaches everyone. The answer is a Git repository your team already knows how to review, plus a per-person install that takes a minute.
Nothing is pushed onto anyone. Each person picks the skills they want and how updates arrive. A skill someone adapts stays adapted.
Share skills with your team
Set up the repository your team installs from, and decide what goes in it.
Install your team's skills
The page to send a teammate. Add the repository, pick skills, done.
Keep team skills current
How a fix reaches everyone, and what happens to a skill someone changed.
Distribute as a plugin
When a plugin is the better shape, and what you give up by choosing it.
Project or global?
Every skill lives in one of two scopes. You pick when you create or import it, and its menu can move it later.
| Choose | When you want |
|---|---|
| Project | Instructions tied to this knowledge base, such as how to write its meeting notes. Commit the skill's folder to share it through git. |
| Global | Personal instructions available across projects on this machine, such as your writing style. These are not shared through git. |
Moving between scopes starts a new history.
Where to find Skills Studio
Skills Studio sits at the bottom of the file sidebar. Settings → Skills Studio holds the built-in skills and shared folders.
Skills already in your AI tools appear there on their own, read and versioned where they live.
See also
- Developer reference: file layout, CLI, MCP tools, configuration.
- Agentic search: how the agent reads your base.
- LLM wiki: build a source-grounded knowledge base an agent curates, end to end.