Skills

Use skills to give your agents access to specific capabilities.

Skills are reusable capabilities that provide specialized workflows and domain knowledge to your agent. Each skill is stored in the agent’s long-term memory at memories/skills/<skill-name> and is only loaded when the agent determines it is relevant to the current task.

Using skills can help:

• Save on token usage by only providing context relevant to the current task.
• Prevent the agent from having too much context in the system prompt, which can lead to hallucinations and incorrect responses.

Fleet skills are built on Deep Agents and follow the Agent Skills specification. For details on skill structure, the SKILL.md format, and authoring best practices, see the Deep Agents skills documentation.

Private vs. shared skills

Skills can be private to a single agent or shared across a workspace:

• Private skills are stored in the agent’s long-term memory. Only that agent can access them.
• Shared skills appear on the Skills page and can be added to any agent in the workspace. The general-purpose chat also has access to your workspace’s shared skills automatically. Shared skills stay in sync as they are updated.

Create a skill

With AI

Select an agent in Fleet and prompt it to create a skill:

Create a skill that helps the agent use the web to research a topic.

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You can also turn a previous conversation into a reusable skill at any time.

From a template

1. Navigate to Fleet > Skills.
2. Browse available templates and select one to add to your agent.

Import from GitHub

1. Navigate to Fleet > Skills.
2. Click Import from GitHub and provide the repository URL.

Manually

1. Select an agent in Fleet and click Edit Agent.
2. In the Skills section, click Create.
3. Enter the skill name, description, and instructions.
4. Click Save Changes.

When you create a new agent, Fleet automatically generates relevant skills if the agent would benefit from them. These skills are private by default. You can share them to your workspace from the agent editor.

Edit a skill

1. Select an agent in Fleet and click Edit Agent.
2. In the Skills section, select the skill to edit.
3. Update the skill name, description, or instructions.
4. Click Save Changes.

Share a skill

1. Select an agent in Fleet and click Edit Agent.
2. In the Skills section, select the skill to share.
3. Click Share to workspace.

Once shared, the skill appears on the Skills page. You can add shared skills to any agent from the agent editor, and the general-purpose chat picks them up automatically.

Only the creator of a shared skill can edit or delete it.

Remove or delete a skill

Remove a private skill

Removing a private skill deletes it permanently, since it is stored in that agent’s memory.

1. Select the agent in Fleet and click Edit Agent.
2. In the Skills section, click the icon for the skill to remove.

Delete a shared skill

Only the skill’s creator can delete a shared skill. Deleting it removes it from the workspace and from all agents that use it.

1. Navigate to Fleet > Skills.
2. Select the skill to delete.
3. Click the Delete skill icon.

Use Fleet skills in local development

Pull skills from your Fleet workspace with the LangSmith CLI to use them in coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.

langsmith fleet skills pull <skill-name>

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