Installing and using skills
How to install skills from the marketplace, fill in environment variables, and flagship skill examples.
Ready skills are the fastest way to give an agent a new ability. The marketplace has dozens across categories: productivity, development, writing, analysis, automation, education.
Installing a skill
- Open the skills marketplace and find what you need.
- On the skill's page click Add to Agent.
- Pick the agent to add the skill to.
- If the skill needs environment variables — fill them in.
After install, AgentHere rebuilds the agent's bundle — the skill takes effect in chat right away.
Environment variables
Some skills need keys or settings (e.g. access to an external service). At install time you fill in the values — they're stored separately from the skill body and injected at runtime. Secret values aren't visible to other users.
Skill categories
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Summaries, planning, notes |
| Development | Code work, debugging |
| Writing | Editing, style, formats |
| Analysis | Data analysis, reports |
| Automation | Search, placing orders |
Showcase skills (food / grocery)
A good example of a skill chain is meal planning and shopping:
- cooking — builds a menu for a diet and store, computes macros and prices, and makes a structured shopping list with substitutions.
- vkusvill-cart — automatically fills a grocery cart from the list.
Each skill is standalone, but together they solve "from menu to delivery".
Managing an agent's skills
An agent's card shows its skill list. Any skill can be:
- turned off temporarily, without deleting;
- removed — AgentHere rebuilds the bundle without it;
- reordered — order affects instruction priority.
Creating your own skill is covered in Creating and publishing a skill.