How Skills Work
Skills are reusable workflows for AI. They hold instructions, scripts, and assets that should be applied consistently.
Use them for recurring work such as pull request reviews, support replies, weekly reports, candidate screening, pipeline reviews, or policy checks.
What a skill contains
Section titled “What a skill contains”| File or field | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKILL.md | The main Markdown instructions the agent reads |
| Scripts | Optional executable files that support the workflow |
| Assets | Reference files, examples, or templates |
| Handle | The slash-command-style identifier people can invoke |
| Description | Explains when the skill should be used |
Add skills to a Space
Section titled “Add skills to a Space”Skills live under Library → Skills in a Space.
You can:
- Create a skill from the Library.
- Ask AI in the Space to create one.
- Import one from GitHub.
- Add an existing organization skill.
- Confirm a skill proposed by a Space template.
Templates only propose skills. Review the setup plan before creating or adding them, and reuse a good organization skill instead of making a duplicate.
Invoke a skill
Section titled “Invoke a skill”Select a skill from the composer or use its slash-command-style handle. The selected skill guides the AI response.
AI can also use skill descriptions to recognize when a workflow applies.
Skillsets
Section titled “Skillsets”A skillset is a collection of skills. Adding one to a Space adds each skill in the collection. It does not run an installer or copy a separate package.
Editing and GitHub sync
Section titled “Editing and GitHub sync”Creators can edit their own skills, admins can edit any skill, and other workspace members can propose changes.
When a skill uses the shared GitHub registry, GitHub is the source of truth for accepted changes. Type records the change and retries publication or reconciliation until the app reflects the merged state.
Built-in skills
Section titled “Built-in skills”Type and its Claude or Codex runtimes provide built-in skills for common workflows, including presentations, documents, spreadsheets, apps, images, data visualization, and video.
These skills help AI choose the right tools, create native files such as .pptx, .docx, and .xlsx, validate the result, and attach finished work to the thread.
Image generation uses Type’s generate_image tool with gpt-image-2. The Remotion skill creates React video compositions as Type Video artifacts and queues MP4 export through Type’s self-hosted Render Workflow.
Skill hygiene
Section titled “Skill hygiene”Keep each skill narrow, explicit, and easy to reuse. A support reply skill, a code review skill, and a weekly marketing ideas skill should usually stay separate.
Never put secrets in a skill. Put credentials in connections and workflow guidance in skills.