Skills overview

When you keep telling an agent the same multi-step process — "research keywords, cluster them, draft a brief" — you're doing work a Skill could do once and reuse forever. A Skill packages a repeatable workflow so any agent can run it the same way every time.

What a Skill is

A Skill is a reusable capability — an SOP or toolkit — that an agent loads and invokes. It is not another agent; think of it as the method an agent follows, defined in a single manifest file called SKILL.md. The manifest holds a name, a one-line description, and the agent-facing instructions that tell the model when and how to run the workflow. See SKILL.md format for the full structure.

If a task happens once, just ask. If a workflow keeps repeating, turn it into a Skill.

Built-in vs managed vs local

Every Skill has a type:

• Managed — installed from the Marketplace or a connected repo. Buda tracks the source, so the Skill can be updated when the publisher ships changes.
• Local — created or kept in your own workspace, including anything you build with the Skill Creator. Local Skills live only where you made them.

A set of built-in Skills ships with every agent and is always available — FAR, Find Skills, Skill Creator, Buda Automations, and Machine Info. See Built-in skills.

Scopes: system / agent / space

Beyond type, each Skill has a scope that decides where it lives and which agents can use it:

• System — the built-in Skills that ship with the platform; available to every agent automatically.
• Agent — discovered in one agent's workspace. Only that agent uses it.
• Space — shared across a Space, so every agent in the workspace can run it.

Choose agent scope for a Skill that belongs to one specialist; choose space scope for an SOP your whole team should share.

Where to find Skills

Open a Space and go to its Apps & Skills view. You'll see every Skill available to the agents in that Space — each card shows its type badge (Managed or Local) and source (System, Local, or Global). Use the filter tabs (All / Managed / Local) to narrow the list, switch agents with the selector, and click any Skill to read its full manifest.