Step 12: Skills Beginner
A skill is a saved how-to: the steps for a task you want done the same way every time. Once saved, a skill is shared across your bots, so any of them can follow it. Skills are how a bot's good work becomes repeatable.
What you'll learn
- What a skill is
- How skills differ from routines and memory
- How to save one
- Tips for good skills
1. What a skill is
A skill is a reusable set of instructions for one task, like "how I like expense reports filled in" or "how to post our weekly update". When a matching task comes up, a bot loads the skill and follows it instead of working it out from scratch.
2. Skills, routines and memory
- Skill: how to do a task. It doesn't run by itself.
- Routine: when to do a task. It runs on a schedule or event (Step 11).
- Memory: lasting facts, like your preferences (Step 13).
They work together: a routine can run every Friday and follow your "weekly report" skill.
3. Save a skill
- Do the task with a bot until the result is right, correcting it along the way.
- Ask it to save the process: "Save how we just did this as a skill called Weekly Report."
- Read its summary of the steps and fix anything that's off.
4. Shared across your bots
Skills aren't locked to the bot that made them. Save once, and your other bots can use the same steps.
5. Change or delete
Ask any bot to update a skill when your process changes, or to delete one you don't need. Keeping skills current stops bots following outdated steps.
Ideas to try
- Repeat task.
Save how we just made this invoice as a skill called 'Monthly invoice'.
- Team.
Turn our customer-reply steps into a skill.
- Review.
List my skills and what each one does.
Tips
- One skill, one task. Smaller skills are easier to fix.
- Include where the work should stop for your approval.
- Give skills clear names so you can ask for them by name.
Facts about the app on this page come from Cursor's official Grok Bot documentation. Menus can change between versions; if something looks different, check the official docs.