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Teach FetchskiAI how you do a task once, and it follows your way each time it does that task. It can still get things wrong, so check its work. A Skill is a page of that know-how: your house style for headlines, a checklist before publishing, how to write an FAQ answer. The agents see each Skill’s short description, and load the full Skill only when a task needs it. Who can do this: Editors, Admins and Owners can see the Skills library. Admins and Owners add, write, install, change and turn off Skills.

How Skills work

Each Skill has a Name, a Description and Instructions, and can carry reference files such as checklists or color lists. The Description matters most: it’s all an agent sees before it decides to load the Skill, so say what the Skill does and when to use it. Your site comes with built-in Skills for design, accessibility, copywriting, editing and SEO. Add your own beside them. Skills only guide FetchskiAI. They can’t change what each person is allowed to do.

Open the Skills library

  • Admins and Owners: in the toolbar, choose FetchskiAI → FetchskiAI Skills.
  • Everyone who can read them, Editors too: open the command palette (⌘K, or Ctrl+K on Windows) and choose Go to FetchskiAI Skills, or press G then Shift+L. Editors don’t have it in the toolbar.
The FetchskiAI Skills manager lists every Skill, with its description and whether it’s Enabled. Along the top are Browse Skills, Write with FetchskiAI, Add a Skill and Skills settings, with Restore built-in Skills in the ⋮ menu beside them.
The FetchskiAI Skills manager listing the built-in Skills (frontend-design, accessibility, copywriting and others) with their descriptions and Enabled column.The FetchskiAI Skills manager listing the built-in Skills (frontend-design, accessibility, copywriting and others) with their descriptions and Enabled column.

The Skills library, with every way to add a Skill along the top.

Write a Skill with FetchskiAI

The easiest way to make your own Skill is to describe it and let FetchskiAI write it with you.
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In the Skills manager, choose Write with FetchskiAI

The Write a Skill with FetchskiAI window opens.
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Say what the Skill is for, or choose an idea to start from, such as "Our house style for headlines and calls to action."

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Answer FetchskiAI's questions

It asks a few at a time, each with options you can click.
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When the draft is ready, it appears as a card

Choose Open in the editor. If the card says something must change first, choose Ask FetchskiAI to fix it.
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In the editor, check the Skill before you save it:

Then save it. If the check shows warnings, choose Go back to fix them, or Save anyway.
The Write a Skill with FetchskiAI window: the conversation list on the left, a short chat about Parker's headline style, and a finished draft card with Open in the editor.The Write a Skill with FetchskiAI window: the conversation list on the left, a short chat about Parker's headline style, and a finished draft card with Open in the editor.

FetchskiAI asks a few questions, then drafts the Skill.

Nothing is saved until you save it in the editor. Your conversations are listed under Skill Creator conversations on the left, so you can pick one up later. Each is kept for 30 days after its last message. Choose New conversation to start another. You can attach files to the chat too, such as a style guide, and ask FetchskiAI to keep one as a reference file in the Skill.

Add a Skill you already have

Already have a Skill, written by someone else or by you? Add it directly. This is for a Skill that’s already written in the standard Skill format. To make a new one from scratch, write it with FetchskiAI instead. A Skill in that format is a text file named SKILL.md. It starts with a short header giving the Skill’s name and description, then the instructions. For example:
A Skill with reference files comes as a Skill folder: SKILL.md plus its files, or a zip file of that folder.
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In the Skills manager, choose Add a Skill

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Choose how to add it:

  • Paste SKILL.md: paste the Skill’s text into the box.
  • Upload: drop a SKILL.md file, a Skill folder or a zip file, or choose Choose files… or Choose a folder….
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Choose Check Skill

You see what will be installed: its instructions, its files, and anything left out, with the reason.
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Choose Install Skill

If the check found a warning, the button reads Install anyway. Read each warning first. Some examples:
  • Secrets requested: the Skill asks for passwords or keys.
  • Data sent out: the Skill tells FetchskiAI to send information somewhere else.
  • Instruction override: the Skill tries to make FetchskiAI ignore its other instructions.
  • Instructions from a link: the Skill tells FetchskiAI to follow instructions from a web address.
If you can’t tell whether a warning is safe, don’t install the Skill. Ask Fetchski Support.If a Skill with the same name exists, it reads Replace Skill. It works only once you select Replace its instructions and files with this one.Replacing swaps in the new instructions and files. The Skill’s Agents and Enabled switch stay as they are, and the old version stays in Document Versions.
The Add a Skill window after Check Skill: the Skill's name and instructions, its file list, and a Left out note naming a dropped file and why; Install Skill ringed.The Add a Skill window after Check Skill: the Skill's name and instructions, its file list, and a Left out note naming a dropped file and why; Install Skill ringed.

You see exactly what goes in before you install.

Before it’s saved, every Skill is checked for hidden text, links that hide where they go, code, and instructions that try to take over FetchskiAI. Some things are always refused. Others show a warning you can accept.

Browse Skills from outside your site

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In the Skills manager, choose Browse Skills

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Choose a tab:

  • Fetchski Verified: Skills Fetchski has read and approved.
  • OpenAgentSkill: a public library of Skills from around the internet, filtered by your Skills settings.
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Type what you need, such as "marketing" or "SEO"

The results update as you type. Clear the box to see the full list again.
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On a Skill's card, choose Review and install to see its preview, then choose Install Skill

Choose Back to results to keep looking.
The Browse Skills window on the OpenAgentSkill tab with search results for "Marketing": cards with their safety badges, and the line saying how many listings were hidden and why.The Browse Skills window on the OpenAgentSkill tab with search results for "Marketing": cards with their safety badges, and the line saying how many listings were hidden and why.

Each listing shows its safety signals before you install it.

Internet Skills are written by strangers. On the OpenAgentSkill tab, you see only Skills that pass your safety settings, and each card shows its safety signals. Not sure about a Skill? On its card, choose Source to read the Skill where it’s kept, and OpenAgentSkill’s audit to see how it was checked. Look for anything that asks for passwords, sends your information elsewhere, or doesn’t match what the Skill says it does. If you still can’t tell, don’t install it, and ask Fetchski Support.
Installing from GitHub, the website where many Skills are kept, has an hourly limit. Past it, an Admin or Owner can add a GitHub token: an access code from a GitHub account, unrelated to AI usage. In Connections → Fetchski services → GitHub, fill in GitHub token for installing Skills (optional). A token that can only read public projects is enough; for help making one, contact Fetchski Support.

Change, limit or turn off a Skill

Choose a Skill in the manager to open it. The editor has 3 tabs:
  • Skill: Name, Description and Instructions, plus these:
    • Agents: which tools may use it. The names here map to these features: All agents covers only the first 4, which load a Skill when a task needs it. The other 3 read their Skills in full every time, so they get a Skill only when you pick their name in Agents. For example, to give SEO suggestions your SEO checklist, choose SEO suggest in that Skill’s Agents.
    • Always load in full: gives the Blog writer and Playground the whole Skill at the start of every task, instead of only when needed. Each task then costs more, so keep it for know-how nearly every task needs.
    • Enabled: turn it off and no agent sees it.
  • Files: the Skill’s reference files.
  • About: where the Skill came from, plus 2 fields:
    • License: the terms its author shared it under, which say how you may reuse it.
    • Import notes: what was left out or flagged when it was added.
A new Skill from the Skill Creator open in the editor on the Skill tab: Name, Description, the Agents picker on All agents, Always load in full off, Enabled, and the Instructions at the bottom.A new Skill from the Skill Creator open in the editor on the Skill tab: Name, Description, the Agents picker on All agents, Always load in full off, Enabled, and the Instructions at the bottom.

Choose which agents use a Skill, or turn it off.

On a Skill that’s already saved, changes on the Files tab save straight away, each as a new version. Closing or canceling the editor doesn’t undo them; use Document Versions to bring an old file back. On a new Skill, files wait in the window until you save it, and closing without saving discards them.
Changes are live for the next request. Every save is kept in Document Versions, so you can go back. See Versions.

Built-in Skills

Built-in Skills can be turned off with Enabled, but never deleted. Fetchski keeps them up to date on its own, unless you’ve edited one. Your edits are kept, and the editor offers Use the newer built-in version when there’s an update. To undo your edits, choose Reset to built-in version. If a built-in Skill is ever missing from the list, open the ⋮ menu at the top of the manager and choose Restore built-in Skills to bring it back.

Skills settings

Admins and Owners can choose how strict the safety checks are. In the Skills manager, choose Skills settings. Or open the command palette and choose FetchskiAI Skills Settings, or press T then K. Internet Skills
  • Minimum GitHub stars: on GitHub, people “star” a project to bookmark it. A Skill’s project needs at least this many stars to show. It starts at 1,000 and can’t go below 100. Stars show popularity, not a safety review.
  • Minimum verified installs: how many installs other people confirmed worked. Most Skills have none yet, so a number above about 5 hides nearly all of them.
These 4 switches each let a riskier kind of Skill through:
  • Allow experimental Skills: shows Skills OpenAgentSkill rates experimental, tested only by hand.
  • Allow Skills whose audit says “needs review”: shows Skills whose OpenAgentSkill check found something a person should look at.
  • Allow Skills with a “review” trust score: shows Skills OpenAgentSkill trusts less than usual.
  • Allow Skills that hint at shell or secrets access: shows Skills that may try to run commands on a computer (shell) or reach passwords and keys (secrets).
All 4 are off to start. Leave these settings at their starting values unless Fetchski Support advises otherwise. Files
  • Allow images in Skills: lets Skills keep pictures. Off to start.
Agents
  • Skills per agent: the most of your own Skills one agent may have. It starts at 5 and goes up to 20. Built-in Skills don’t count. Two fixed limits still apply, even if you raise Skills per agent:
    • The Rich text assistant, SEO suggest and Skill Creator take 3 of your own Skills at most.
    • The Blog writer and Playground take at most 3 with Always load in full on.
When you’re done, save the settings. They apply from the next search or install.
FetchskiAI Skills Settings on the Internet Skills tab with Allow experimental Skills turned on.FetchskiAI Skills Settings on the Internet Skills tab with Allow experimental Skills turned on.

Lowering a safety check shows a warning you must accept.

Lowering any safety check shows the warning Internet Skills now get through with less checking. To save, select “I understand the risk. Every install is still previewed, and a person approves it.” Put the settings back to their starting values, and the warning clears.

Good to know

  • Short, clear descriptions work best. An agent decides whether to load a Skill from its description alone.
  • Skills cost a little. Every task pays to read the list of Skills, and more for each one it loads. You can see the share in Recordings.
  • Scripts need the Code Sandbox. A Skill can keep and run scripts only once Fetchski sets up the Code Sandbox for your site.

The FetchskiAI Agent

the agent that uses your Skills.

Memory

facts the Agent remembers about your site.

Custom instructions

how you and your business like to write.

Recordings

see which Skills each request loaded.