A skill is a reusable bundle of instructions, templates and quality checks for one capability, such as anomaly investigation, a monthly executive report, or yield-loss root-cause analysis. It’s the natural home for “the way our team always does X”.
A tool is a function call. A skill is a packaged way of solving a class of problems.
Add a skill
- Write a Markdown skill with its purpose, when-to-use guidance, instructions, templates and checks. Use the same
SKILL.md-style format as AgentFlow’s built-in skills.
- Choose global or project scope.
- Save a version.
- Attach the skill to each workflow step that needs the playbook.
What a skill can’t do
A skill supplies guidance. It doesn’t grant tools: its allowed_tools field is authoring guidance only. The workflow step and the runtime tool boundary decide which tools can be called. Last modified on October 1, 2026
