- List and filter available skills to see what capabilities are available for your agents, including their categories and tool sets.
- Retrieve detailed skill information to understand what each skill enables, which tools it includes, and any required integrations.
- Create and update custom skills to define new sets of capabilities or modify existing ones as your requirements evolve.
- Validate skill configurations before deployment, ensuring your skills are correctly set up and ready for use.
- Associate skills with agents, teams, or other entities to control who can use which capabilities.
For conceptual information about skills and how they’re used in agents, see Skills Core Concepts.
Overview
The Skills Service provides a set of high-level methods designed to be intuitive and flexible, supporting a wide range of operational and administrative tasks:- list(skip, limit): Retrieve all available skills, with support for pagination. This is the primary entry point for discovering which skills are available in your workspace.
- get(skill_id): Fetch detailed information for a specific skill, including its tools, capabilities, and configuration. Use this to inspect or audit skills before assigning them to agents.
- create(skill_data): Register a new custom skill. This is typically used to define new sets of capabilities or tool sets for your organization.
- update(skill_id, skill_data): Modify the configuration of an existing skill, such as updating its description, tools, or required integrations.
- delete(skill_id): Remove a skill from the registry. This operation is restricted to ensure that no active agents or teams are using the skill at the time of deletion.
- associate(entity_id, skill_ids): Assign skills to agents, teams, or other entities to control access to capabilities.
- validate(skill_config): Validate a skill configuration before deployment. This helps catch errors early and ensures your skills are ready for use.
Quick Start
List Skills
List all available skills with pagination support.Basic Listing
Paginated Listing
List All Skills
Filter Skills by Category
Get Skill Details
Retrieve detailed information about a specific skill.By Skill ID
Extract Skill Information
Find Skill by Name
Create Custom Skill
Create a new custom skill with specific tools and capabilities.Basic Creation
Create with Integrations
Create with Validation
Update Skill
Update an existing skill configuration.Basic Update
Add Tools to Skill
Enable/Disable Skill
Delete Skill
Delete a custom skill.Delete with Safety Check
Associate Skills with Entities
Associate skills with agents, teams, or other entities.Associate Skills with Agent
Bulk Association
Replace Skills for Entity
Validate Skill Configuration
Validate a skill configuration before creation or update.Basic Validation
Validate Before Creation
Practical Examples
The following examples show how to use the Skills Service for common real-world scenarios, such as discovering skills that match specific requirements, auditing your skill inventory, and managing skill configurations. Each example includes a short explanation of when and why you might use it.1. Skill Discovery System
Use this approach to find skills that match a set of required capabilities or categories. This is helpful when you want to assign the most relevant skills to an agent or team based on their responsibilities.2. Skill Audit Report
Generate a summary report of all skills in your environment, including how many are enabled, disabled, or missing descriptions. This is useful for platform administrators who need to audit skill inventory or prepare compliance reports.3. Skill Configuration Manager
Use this helper class to create, validate, and clone skill configurations efficiently. This is valuable for organizations that want to standardize skill creation or quickly replicate existing skills for new use cases.4. Skill Dependencies Validator
Check that all required integrations for a skill are available before deployment. This helps prevent runtime errors and ensures your skills are ready to use in your environment.Error Handling
When working with skills, you may encounter errors such as requesting a non-existent skill, creating a skill with missing fields, or failing validation. These examples show how to handle such errors gracefully and provide fallback options to keep your workflows running smoothly.Best Practices
Follow these best practices to make your use of the Skills Service more robust, efficient, and maintainable. These patterns help you avoid common pitfalls and ensure your code is resilient to changes in skill availability or configuration.1. Always Validate Before Creating
Always validate your skill configuration before creating or updating a skill. This helps catch errors early and ensures your skills are correctly set up for use by agents and teams.2. Cache Skill Information
To reduce API calls and improve performance, cache skill and skill details information locally after the first retrieval. This is especially useful in applications that repeatedly access the same skill details.3. Use Descriptive Names and Categories
Choose clear, descriptive names and categories for your skills. This makes it easier for others to understand what each skill does and helps with auditing and compliance.4. Document Tool Configurations
Provide clear descriptions for all tools within a skill. This ensures that anyone using or maintaining the skill understands what each tool does and how to use it safely.API Reference
Methods
Skill Object Structure
Validation Result Object Structure
Next Steps
Policies Service
Manage security and access policies
Agents Service
Create and manage agents
Runtimes Service
Configure agent runtime environments