# Overview

Understand how skills add repeatable procedures and supporting resources to agents without changing the underlying agent identity.

![Skills in Foxora v5.0.3](/docs/images/v5.0.3/studio/skills-overview.webp)

## Where this lives

Open **studio → Skills**.

A skill is a packaged set of instructions and optional resources, scripts, or tool guidance that teaches agents a repeatable way to perform a specialized workflow.

> **Safety:** Treat installed skill instructions and scripts as executable supply-chain input. Review their source, requested tools, paths, and network behavior before enabling them.

## Steps

1. Open **studio → Skills**.
2. Understand how skills add repeatable procedures and supporting resources to agents without changing the underlying agent identity.
3. Choose **New skill**, then **Build with AI** or **Start from scratch**. Set identity, version, tags, palace locus, tools, scripts, and the SKILL.md instructions that an agent will load on demand.
4. **Confirm the result.** Invoke the skill from a fresh agent task, confirm the agent follows its procedure, and verify the output and any tool action independently.

## Choose the right path

- Use a built-in skill for a supported standard workflow.
- Install a reviewed skill for reusable third-party guidance.
- Create a custom skill when your organization has a stable process worth encoding.


## Confirm it worked

- Invoke the skill from a fresh agent task, confirm the agent follows its procedure, and verify the output and any tool action independently.
- The screen, command, file, run, or destination named in this guide reflects the expected state.