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Skills

Skills are reusable knowledge blocks that are injected into the agent's system prompt during operations. Write a methodology, checklist, or reference once, keep it active, and every operation in your tenant can draw on it.

At a glance​

  • What it is — A named, reusable block of text (title, description, content) injected into the agent's system prompt during operations.
  • When to use it — Inject team-specific methodologies, checklists, or reference material into assessments; pin a focused set to a playbook for a repeatable methodology.
  • Inputs — Title (kebab-case, up to 64 characters), description (up to 1024 characters), content (up to 200,000 characters) or an imported .zip bundle, and an Active flag.
  • Outputs — A skill record in the tenant Library; when Active, its content is loaded into the agent's system prompt for eligible operations.
  • Related objects — Playbooks, Operations
  • Common actions — Create, Import, toggle Active, Download, Edit, Delete.
  • API / tool links — UI only — no public API.

What are skills?​

A skill is a named block of text — instructions, techniques, or reference knowledge — that the agent reads as part of its system prompt. Use skills to inject your team's expertise into assessments, for example:

  • Industry-specific testing methodologies
  • Custom vulnerability checklists
  • Target-environment documentation
  • Reference material for specialized protocols
  • Internal security policies and standards

A skill carries three things you write — a title, a description, and the content — plus an Active flag that controls whether the agent sees it (see The active gate).

Prerequisites​

  • Access to a realm in your tenant.
  • Skills are managed from the Library, reached from the top navigation bar.

Create a skill​

  1. Open the Library from the top navigation, then select the Skills tab.
  2. Click New Skill.
  3. Fill in the dialog:
    • Title — lowercase kebab-case, up to 64 characters (for example web-app-recon).
    • Description — a short summary, up to 1024 characters. This tells the agent what the skill is for.
    • Content — paste the skill text directly into the Content field (up to 200,000 characters). This is the text injected into the agent's system prompt.
    • Active — leave the toggle on to make the skill available to the agent.
  4. Click Create.

There is no separate file-upload step when you create a skill — the content is the text you paste into the Content field. To bring in an existing skill packaged as a folder, use Import a skill bundle instead.

Import a skill bundle​

To bring in a skill packaged as files (a directory with content and assets), import a .zip bundle:

  1. Open Library → Skills.
  2. Click Import and choose a .zip file.

The bundle is unpacked and saved as a skill. When you open an imported skill, its file tree is shown read-only beneath the Content field so you can inspect what it contains.

The active gate​

Only active skills reach the agent. Each skill row has an Active switch:

  • On — the skill is eligible to be loaded into operations.
  • Off — the skill is excluded from every operation; the agent never sees it.

Toggle a skill off to retire it without deleting it, then on again when you want it back. System skills are always active and cannot be toggled.

How the agent uses skills​

You do not attach skills to an operation by hand. The agent is given an index of available skills — each skill's name and description, not its full content. It reads a skill's full instructions only when it decides to use one, so having many skills available does not fill the context with all of them.

Which skills appear in that index depends on the operation:

  • If the operation runs under a playbook that pins a specific set of skills, only that playbook's skills (the active ones) are available.
  • Otherwise, all active skills in the tenant are available.

Either way, inactive skills never appear. Pin a skill set on a playbook when you want a focused toolkit; leave skills active and unpinned when you want them available everywhere.

Manage skills​

From Library → Skills, each skill row gives you:

  • Active — toggle whether the agent can use the skill.
  • Download — export the skill as a .zip file.
  • Edit — open the skill to change its title, description, content, or active state.
  • Delete — permanently remove the skill.

System skills show a System badge and are read-only: you can see them but cannot edit, download, or delete them.

Scope​

Skills are tenant-scoped. Any skill you create is shared across every realm in your tenant and is available to operations in all of them.

Next steps​

  • Playbooks — pin a specific set of skills to a repeatable methodology.
  • Operations — see where skills are loaded into the agent's context.