# Skills: teach the Autron Agent how you work A skill is reusable guidance the agent follows when you include it — your naming conventions, bid rules or report format. How to write one in Settings › Skills, use it with / in chat or on a routine, and share it with your team. **TL;DR:** A skill is guidance you write once — a name, a description and the instructions — and include in a chat message by typing /, or attach to a routine. Create one in Settings › Skills or ask the agent to save one from the conversation. Keep it to yourself or share it with your team; sharing can't be undone. A company can have up to 50 custom skills. URL: https://autron.ai/help/skills Updated: 2026-10-02 By: Autron --- A **skill** is guidance you write once and the Autron Agent follows whenever you include it — your campaign naming convention, your bid-change rules, the way your agency formats a client report. Write it down instead of re-explaining it at the start of every conversation. Skills _teach_. If you need a rule the agent cannot break, you want [Guardrails](https://autron.ai/help/guardrails) instead. ## Use a skill - **In chat** — type **/** in the message box and pick a skill from the list. You can include up to three in one message. The agent follows them for that message, not for the whole conversation. - **On a routine** — type **/** in the routine's **Agent Instructions** to attach up to three skills, so its runs follow the same rules your chats do. See [Agent routines](https://autron.ai/help/routines). ## Create a skill 1. Go to [Settings › Skills](https://agent.autron.ai/settings/skills) and click **New skill**. 2. Fill in three fields: - **Name** — what you'll see in the **/** list, up to 80 characters. - **Description** — when to use it, up to 300 characters. It shows in the **/** list, so make it say when the skill applies: "Use when changing bids: our ACoS bands and step limits." - **Instructions** — what the agent should do, up to 20,000 characters. Markdown works. 3. Choose whether to **Share with your team** (see below). The box starts ticked unless you create the skill from the **Mine** tab. Then click **Create skill**. Write the instructions the way you would brief a new colleague: what you want, when it applies, and anything to avoid. Plain English works better than keywords. You can also ask in chat: "Save what we just did as a skill." The agent drafts the name, description and instructions from the conversation and shows them on an approval card before saving. ## Mine, Team and Built-in Skills sit under three tabs, each showing a count: - **Mine** — your personal skills. Only you can see and use them. - **Team** — skills shared with your company, by you or anyone else. Everyone in the company can use and edit them, so an agency can set a house standard once rather than per person. - **Built-in** — written and kept up to date by Autron. You can use them, and **View** shows each one's name and description, but not its instructions. You cannot edit them. ![Settings → Skills in Autron Agent, showing the Mine, Team and Built-in tabs with a saved skill](https://autron.ai/help/skills/1.png) ## Sharing with your team **Share with your team** makes a skill available to everyone in your company to use and edit. **Sharing can't be undone**: a team skill can't be made personal again. To keep one to yourself after sharing, delete it and create it again without ticking the box. Deleting a team skill deletes it for everyone. Messages that already used a skill keep their history either way, and a deletion can't be undone. ## Limits - A company can have up to **50** custom skills. When you reach it, **New skill** is greyed out with the note "Limit of 50 skills reached". Teammates' personal skills count too, so the company can be full before you see 50; then a new skill won't save, and you see "You've reached the 50-skill limit." Someone has to delete one to make room. - Up to three skills per chat message, and three per routine. ## Plan Skills come with the Agent and Pro plans. On Free, the Skills page shows an upgrade prompt instead of the library. ## Related - [Guardrails: banned terms and limits for your listing copy](https://autron.ai/help/guardrails) - [Automate your advertising with Agent Routines](https://autron.ai/help/routines)