A skill is a job the workspace knows how to do: pull a person’s history together, work through an inbox, write a briefing, keep its own records tidy.
Skills are what turn a workspace from something you query into something that makes progress while you are elsewhere.
Launching one
Open the Skills tab. Every skill the workspace has is listed there; the ones you can start yourself carry a Start button on their row.
Hit Start and the workspace opens a fresh conversation and begins. You watch it work in chat, and you can interrupt, redirect, or ask it to explain what it is doing, exactly like any other thread.
What is installed
Each row shows the skill’s name, a one-line description of what it does for you, and its state. Skills come with plain-English names (“Team Daily Sync”, “Meeting Notes”); the short technical id appears in small type next to the name, which is handy when you ask for a specific skill by name.
Some skills are always on and run as part of normal operation rather than being launched. Some show as disabled or missing requirements, which usually means a connected account it needs is not connected yet. See connect your accounts.
The list refreshes on its own. A change you just made, like teaching it a new skill in chat, can take a few minutes to show up.
Work that runs on its own
Some skills run on a schedule. Overnight the workspace reads what came in, files it, enriches what it already knew, and cleans up after itself. That is why a workspace you have been feeding for a month answers better than one you set up yesterday, even if you asked both the same question.
The Schedule page shows what is scheduled, in plain English: what runs, when it last fired, and when it fires next.
Asking for something that is not there
If the job you want is not in the list, ask for it in chat. Describing the outcome is usually enough. It either knows a way to do it or tells you what it would need.