> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cognee.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Skills

> Browse, upload, and share Skills — procedural playbooks that give your agents reusable, dataset-scoped instructions — from the Skills page in Cognee Cloud.

**Skills** are procedural playbooks (`SKILL.md` files) loaded by the agent to give it reusable, named instructions for a task. The **Skills** page lets you browse every skill registered in your workspace, upload new ones, and share an existing skill with more brains. Open it from the sidebar.

Skills are **scoped to brains (datasets)** — a skill is attached to one or more brains, and the same skill can be copied into additional brains.

## Browse skills

The page is a two-column browser:

* **Brains** (left) — every brain that has at least one skill registered. Brains without skills are hidden. Select a brain to see its skills.
* **Skills** (right) — the skills registered in the selected brain, grouped by their maintainer.

Use the search box to filter by skill **name**, **maintainer**, **description**, or **tag**. A green dot marks an active skill; a grey dot marks an inactive one.

### Skill detail

Click a skill row to expand it. The detail view shows:

* **Description** and metadata — maintainer (linked to its homepage or repository when a URL is provided), version, license, source repository, and the number of brains the skill is attached to.
* **Declared tools** — the tools the skill is allowed to invoke.
* **Procedure** — the full skill instruction body, fetched on demand when you expand the row.

## Add a skill

Click **Add skill** (enabled once you have at least one brain) to open the upload dialog:

1. Enter a **name** for the skill. The name is slugified into the ingestion path (for example, *Weather lookup* becomes `weather-lookup/SKILL.md`).
2. Provide the **content** — either upload a `.md` file or paste the skill markdown directly.
3. Select one or more **brains** to attach the skill to.
4. Submit. The result is reported per brain, so you can see which datasets the skill was added to successfully.

## Share a skill with more brains

Each skill row has a **share** control ("Add this skill to more brains"). It opens a dialog listing the brains the skill is **not** yet attached to. Select one or more destination brains to copy the skill into them; the outcome is reported per brain.

<Note>
  Skills are ingested through the same path as the `content_type: "skills"` option of the ingestion API — see [Data Ingestion](/cognee-cloud/functionality/data-ingestion).
</Note>