Built-in skills

FAR, Find Skills, Skill Creator, Buda Automations, and Machine Info.

Every agent starts with five system-scope Skills already installed — no setup, no Marketplace trip. They cover the work agents need most often: reading files, finding more Skills, building new ones, scheduling work, and checking their own machine. You rarely call these by name; the agent reaches for them when the task fits.

A Space's Apps and Skills view, including built-in skills

FAR — file augmented retrieval

Makes binary files readable to the agent. FAR generates a smart summary alongside each file — PDFs, images, spreadsheets, slide decks, videos, and more — so the agent can reason over content it couldn't otherwise open.

  • When it runs — you ask an agent to read or analyze a document and it hits a format it can't parse directly.
  • Result — a persistent sidecar summary the agent can reference, stored next to the original in Drive.

Find Skills

Helps an agent discover and suggest new Skills when you ask it to do something it can't do yet. Instead of failing, the agent searches the open Skills ecosystem and proposes ones to install.

  • When it runs — "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", or any request that needs a capability the agent doesn't have.
  • Result — suggestions you can install from the Marketplace.

Skill Creator

Build, test, and improve custom Skills directly with the agent. It interviews you about what the Skill should do and when it should trigger, drafts the SKILL.md, runs test cases, and iterates until the Skill works reliably.

  • When it runs — "turn this into a skill", "I do this all the time, automate it", or a request to refine an existing Skill.
  • Result — a Local Skill you can keep in your workspace or publish. See Create a custom skill.

Buda Automations

Create and manage scheduled work — set an agent to run a task on a recurring or one-time basis. The agent reads phrases like "every morning" or "once a day" and sets up the schedule for you.

  • When it runs — "create a daily automation", "set up a cron job", "show my scheduled tasks", or any recurring-time phrasing.
  • Schedule types — repeating intervals, cron expressions (Plus and above), or a one-time run at a future time.
  • Result — a managed schedule you can monitor, pause, and resume. See Automations.

Machine Info

Reports the hardware specs and resource usage of the agent's cloud computer — CPU, memory, disk, OS, and installed tool versions.

  • When it runs — "what are this machine's specs", "how much memory do I have", or troubleshooting a resource limit.
  • Result — a plain-language readout of the sandbox environment.

Built-in Skills are read-only and can't be uninstalled — they ship with the platform and are available to every agent automatically.

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