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

# Skills

> Teach the agent once — it remembers forever.

A skill is behavioural memory. You explain to the agent how to summarize email, how to format a report, how to handle customer requests — and it remembers and repeats. No need to explain again.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/ascn-b377dab5/gJOzWPSTEzSbhz3B/images/en/08-skills.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=gJOzWPSTEzSbhz3B&q=85&s=69f40aca2d84c5df55f17f3705cc0a6f" alt="Brain → Skills" width="2449" height="1403" data-path="images/en/08-skills.png" />

## Ready-made skills and your own

In **Brain → Skills** there are two sections.

**Open Source skills** — a library by ASCN and the community. Found one you need, click **+ Install**. For example, the `pdf` skill lets the agent work with PDFs. The `creating-financial-models` skill builds DCFs.

**My skills** — what you've taught the agent yourself. Empty by default.

## How to create your own

Just tell the agent in chat what to do. It will figure it out and create the skill.

```text theme={null}
Create a skill: when I ask for an email summary — group by sender,
highlight emails with deadlines or questions to me, skip newsletters
```

The skill appears in **My skills**. You can open, view, edit.

## Where it's stored

All skills live in agent files under `.agents/skills/` — visible in the **Files** section.