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# Skills

Skills are reusable instructions that teach the Coupler.io AI Agent how to handle a specific task — the way an experienced analyst would. When your request matches a skill, the AI follows that skill's procedure end to end, so you get consistent, expert results without spelling out every step.

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**Skills are currently in early access** and not available to everyone yet. If you don't see the Skills library in Coupler.io, it hasn't been enabled for your account. Contact our support team if you'd like access.
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## What you can do with skills

* **Rely on built-in expertise** — skills cover common jobs (building a data flow, documenting a dataset, writing a report, and more), so the AI follows a proven procedure instead of improvising. Domain skills also prime the AI to focus on the metrics and dimensions that matter for your field.
* **Install ready-made skills** — add skill templates to your workspace from the Skills library.
* **Create custom skills** — capture your own procedures so the AI handles recurring tasks your way.
* **Manage your library** — edit or remove the skills available to your workspace.
* **Use them anywhere** — skills live in your Coupler.io workspace, so they're available wherever you use Coupler.io: the AI Agent and every AI destination.

## The Skills library

Open the **Skills library** in Coupler.io to see every skill available to your workspace. Each skill has a title, a short description of when to use it, and the instructions the AI follows.

* **Ready-made skills** — templates you can install for your workspace.
* **Custom skills** — skills you create yourself.
* Filter by category or search to find the one you need.

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Managing skills — installing, creating, editing, and removing — is available to workspace members but not to guest users. Built-in skills are always available and can't be removed.
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## Create a custom skill

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**Open the Skills library** and choose to add a skill.
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**Give it a title and description.** The description tells the AI when the skill should be used, so make it specific.
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**Write the instructions.** Lay out the procedure you want the AI to follow — the steps, rules, and any conventions it should apply.
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**Save.** The skill is now available to your AI Agent and will be used whenever a request matches it.
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## How skills are invoked

A skill is invoked based on its **description** — the description says when the skill applies, and it's matched to the task you're asking for. Writing a clear, specific description is what makes the right skill kick in at the right time.

You can also invoke a skill yourself:

* **In the Coupler.io AI Agent** — type `/` in the chat to open the skill menu, then pick a skill (it inserts a command like `/create-dataflow`). Keep typing after the slash to filter by name or description.
* **In external AI tools** — skills are exposed as **prompts**. Open your AI tool's prompt picker (for example, the slash or prompt menu in Claude or ChatGPT) and choose a Coupler.io skill to run it.

## Available in

Skills power the Coupler.io AI Agent and are available across every Coupler.io AI destination: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Custom MCP, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, and Perplexity.


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