> Yomates Help Center - all pages: https://yomates.ai/llms.txt

# Skills

> Give agents a written-down way of doing a job, for one agent or for the whole team.

A skill is how a job is done, written down once. An agent opens it when that job comes up. Facts about you and your business go in [memory](/docs/memory) instead.

## Where skills come from

- **The agent writes one.** Once it has worked out a site or a job, an agent can write the steps down. The chat shows **writing down how to …**, and the new skill is added to that agent.
- **A recording.** After you [record a job](/docs/record), the agent offers to keep it as a skill.
- **Yomates ships some.** **Captcha**, **UI UX design**, **Product detail page**, **Video** and **Yomates** are given to every agent from the start. **Photoshoot** comes with Junho.

## Give a skill to one agent or to all of them

| Where                                    | Switch column   | Switched on means          |
| ---------------------------------------- | --------------- | -------------------------- |
| **Settings**, then **Skills**            | **EVERY AGENT** | Every agent has the skill. |
| The agent's **PROFILE**, then **SKILLS** | **THIS AGENT**  | Only this agent has it.    |

To open **Settings**, click your name at the bottom of the left column and choose **Settings**. To open an agent's list, open its chat, click **PROFILE** at the top, then click the **SKILLS** tab.

Each skill shows by name with an on/off switch. The line above the switches counts how many are on, for example **3 of 7 on**. A skill switched on in **Settings** is everyone's and does not appear in an agent's own list.

In either list:

- Type in **Filter** to find a skill.
- Click the pencil (**Read and edit this skill**) to read the skill and change it, then click **Save**.
- Click × to delete a skill for good. The button changes to **delete?**; click it again to confirm.

![The SKILLS tab of an agent's profile](/docs/img/profile-skills-en.webp)

![Settings, Skills: skills every agent has](/docs/img/settings-skills-en.webp)

## Site skills

Some skills are tied to a website. They appear under **Site skills** with their sites next to the name, and have no switch: every agent, and every worker an agent sends off, gets the skill as soon as it opens that site.

## Ask for a skill by name

Type `/` in the message box to list this agent's skills. Pick one (it goes in as `/skill:name`) to have the agent use it for what you write next.