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Agent Skills help your team reuse guidance from your repositories instead of repeating the same instructions across multiple agents. You can browse available skills from connected repositories, preview a skill before adding it, manage all registered skills in one place, and assign the right skills to the right agents. Overcut is compatible with the open Agent Skills spec, so you can bring any existing SKILL.md-formatted skills straight from your connected code repositories or from a skills marketplace — no rewriting or re-authoring required.
Skills are discovered from repositories that are already connected to your workspace. If you do not see the repository you need, start with the Repositories guide.

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What Agent Skills are

A skill is a reusable set of instructions stored in one of your connected repositories. After you add a skill to a project, it becomes part of that project’s shared toolkit and can be assigned to agents when needed. Skills are useful when you want to:
  • Reuse team standards without copying the same instructions into multiple agents
  • Keep guidance close to the repository or codebase it supports
  • Give agents focused expertise for specific frameworks, services, or workflows
  • Maintain one project-level list of approved skills for your team

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Discover skills from connected repositories

Overcut shows available skills from repositories that are connected to your workspace. This gives your team a single place to find reusable guidance that is already packaged in the repositories you use every day.
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Open the Skills area

In your project, go to Skills to view the project-level list of registered skills and discover new ones.
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Start adding a skill

Select Add Skill to browse skills from your connected repositories.
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Choose a connected repository

Pick the repository that contains the skill you want to use. Overcut then shows the skills it finds in that repository.
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Choose a skill to inspect

Select a skill when you want to learn what it does before adding it to the project.
If your team manages many repositories, skills discovery helps you find reusable guidance without manually searching each repository.

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Preview a skill before adding it

Before you register a skill in the project, you can preview its instructions to confirm that it matches your team’s needs. When you open a skill preview, you can review:
  • The skill name
  • The connected repository it comes from
  • The repository path for the skill
  • The skill instructions from SKILL.md
Previewing a skill helps you validate its purpose, scope, and wording before making it available to agents.

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Add and review project skills

Once you find a skill you want to use, add it to the project’s Skills area. This creates a shared project-level list that your team can review and manage over time.
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Preview the skill

Open the skill to read its instructions and confirm it is the right fit for the project.
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Add the skill to the project

Add the skill from the preview so it appears in the project’s Skills list.
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Review the saved skill details

In the project list, review where the skill comes from, including its connected repository, source path, and any pinned reference if one is shown.
The project-level Skills list gives your team a central place to review which reusable instructions are available for agents in that project.

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Enable, disable, and remove skills

You can manage each project skill without editing the source repository directly.

Enable

Keep a skill available for assignment to agents when your team wants to use it.

Disable

Temporarily prevent a skill from being assigned while keeping it in the project list for later use.

Remove

Delete a skill from the project’s Skills area when it is no longer needed.
Disabling a skill is useful when you want to pause its availability without losing track of it. Removing a skill is better when you want to clean up the project list entirely.
Only enabled project skills are available when you assign skills to an agent.

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Assign skills to agents

After a skill has been added to the project and left enabled, you can assign it to individual agents. This lets each agent use the specific guidance it needs without overloading every agent with the same instructions.
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Open the agent settings

Go to the agent you want to update in your project configuration.
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Select skills for that agent

In the agent’s Skills section, choose from the enabled project skills.
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Remove skills when needs change

Update the agent later to remove skills that are no longer relevant.
This workflow works well alongside your agent’s base role and other configuration. To learn more about agent setup, see Base Agent Types.