Skills

Write reusable instructions for agents and sync them to your machine.

What a skill is

A skill is a SKILL.md file with a name, description, and instructions. Store it in Industric for agents to load at session start, or download it with exo skill sync.

Create a skill

The Create Skill dialog filled in with a name, a one-line description, a markdown body and a tools picker — Create a skill with instructions and the tools it can use.

Open Agents → Skills. Enter a name, short description, and Markdown instructions. You can also use the CLI or API:

terminal· bash

exo skill list

exo skill create --from-file triage-runbook.yaml

exo skill update <id> --from-file triage-runbook.yaml

exo skill get <id>

Generated skills

AI drafts have a generated_by_ai flag. Skills generated from tool templates have a source marker. Manually written skills have neither.

Add skills to agents

Add skills to spec.bootstrap.skills. Agents load them at each session start, so edits apply on the next run without a redeploy:

agent excerpt· yaml

1spec:
2  bootstrap:
3    skills:
4      - triage-runbook
5      - review-checklist

Use a catalogue name, a ConfigMap (configMapRef: { name }), or inline content (inline: { name, content }).

Sync to your machine

Run exo skill sync --runtime=claude to install skills for your local agent. Sync tracks its files and preserves manually written ones. See --prune, --dry-run, and layouts in Skill Sync.

Access

You can read and sync skills you own or have access to. Administrators and users with skills:admin manage access from the skill's dashboard row. skills:write does not grant access to every skill.