Skills
Reusable playbooks that teach the model to do a task your way.
A skill is a named, versioned package of instructions, with any files the task needs alongside. Skills live in pads and follow the open agent-skills conventions, so they import and export as plain folders.
Using a skill
Type a slash in the composer and pick the skill. The model follows its instructions for that message, drawing on the pad's documents and the chat's tools as the skill directs.
Creating a skill
Open Skills in the sidebar, pick the pad, and choose New. Write the instructions, add supporting files, and save. Every save creates a new version, so a skill can be improved without losing what worked before.
Importing skills
Choose Import on the Skills surface to bring skills in from outside Pad:
- Upload a zip or tar.gz of skill folders, or a single SKILL.md file.
- GitHub: paste the URL of a public repository, optionally pointing at a branch or a folder inside it, such as
github.com/owner/repo/tree/main/skills.
Pad lists every skill it finds in the source. Pick the ones you want and import them. A skill whose name already exists in the pad is imported as that skill's next version rather than as a duplicate.
Discover
The Discover surface lists built-in skills and the skills other pads in your organization have listed, ready to add to the pad you are in.
Exporting
Every skill exports as a plain folder archive, SKILL.md and its files, so it travels to any other tool that follows the same conventions.