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.

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  <a href="/docs/skills/skills.png"><picture>
    <source srcset="/docs/skills/skills-dark.png" media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
    <img src="/docs/skills/skills.png" alt="The Skills page of a workspace. Each row is a skill: Team Daily Sync, Deep Person Brief, Inbox Cleanup, Book Reflection, News Watch, Fact Check. Each carries a one-line description and a Start button.">
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  <figcaption><strong>What this workspace knows how to do.</strong> The list comes from the workspace itself, so it is what that one has, not a catalogue of what exists.</figcaption>
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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](/docs/tools/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.