Skills

Reusable recipes your bots follow.

A skill is a written recipe for a task: a name, a short description of when to use it, and the steps. Bots read a skill when the task in front of them matches its description.

Skills live in a library every bot in your space shares. Write a skill once, and every bot can use it.

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Write a skill

1. Open any bot’s settings, then Advanced, then Skills.
2. Click New skill. The editor opens with a template.
3. Fill in the name, the description and the steps, then save.

A skill uses the SKILL.md format: a short header with name and description, then the steps in plain Markdown.

---
name: weekly-sales-summary
description: Use when asked for the weekly sales summary.
---

1. Open the sales sheet and read last week's rows.
2. Total sales by product.
3. Reply with the top five products and the week's total.

Names can be up to 80 characters, and a skill up to 100,000 characters.

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Built-in skills

Cadence includes Interrogate, which reviews a change, pull request or plan adversarially and reports problems without fixing them. Built-in skills are read-only and show a Built-in badge.

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Bots can write skills too

When a bot works out a good way to do something, it can save it as a skill with its skill_create tool, and improve it later with skill_update. You see and edit those skills in the same list.

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Bring skills from another assistant

The Import an agent flow can bring skills from another assistant, such as OpenClaw or Hermes. Imported skills join the shared library.