Skills

A skill teaches an agent a repeatable way to do something. It can describe how to research a topic, build a particular kind of app, run a company workflow, create media, work with a service, or follow your team’s standards.

Skills save you from rebuilding the same long prompt every time. Once a skill is in the shared shelf, compatible agents can discover it, load it when relevant, and follow the full instructions only when they actually need them.

Use A Skill

Usually you can ask normally: “Use our code-review process on this pull request” or “Turn this into a reusable workflow.” If more than one skill could fit, the agent can search the shelf and explain its choice.

Open the skill browser from Chat or Brain when you want to:

• see what is already available;
• inspect a skill before trusting it;
• install an optional skill or curated pack;
• update a shared skill;
• remove a skill you no longer want agents to use.

Shared, Optional, And Connected Skills

• Shared skills live in Hive Superbrain and can be reused by permitted agents across your trusted machines.
• Built-in Hive skills cover core HivemindOS workflows and are installed when needed by the product.
• Optional skills stay in the catalog until you choose to install them.
• Connected skills may come from an app, provider, or compatible plugin and can require that service to be connected first.

Installing a skill makes its instructions available; it does not silently run the workflow, connect an account, spend money, publish content, or approve consequential actions.

Create Your Own

Use Hive Fusion to turn a successful process into a reusable shared skill. Start with the outcome you want and the capabilities it should combine. Review the generated instructions and test the skill before treating it as a trusted team standard.

Skills are normal files in your Obsidian vault, so you can read, edit, back up, and remove them. Hive Superbrain keeps the shared index and compatible agent copies aligned without making the vault contents public.