# AI Agent Skills

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URL: https://nocodb.com/docs/agents/skills
Last updated: 2026-10-29

Turn on AI agent skills in NocoDB: reusable instructions from the project, workspace or organization catalog that an agent loads when a task needs them.

AI agent skills in NocoDB are reusable instructions. A skill is a set of instructions for a procedure, for example how to write a report or how to analyze a spreadsheet. A NocoDB agent loads a skill only when its task needs it. Use skills for procedures that several agents share. Use the [instructions](/docs/agents/instructions) for the job of one agent.

## Before you begin

* To turn skills on or off for an agent, you need the **Creator** role or higher in the project.

## Turn on AI agent skills

1. Open the agent.
2. In the top bar, click **Settings**.
3. Go to **Skills**. The section lists the skills that the agent can use.
4. Turn on the switch of each skill that the agent needs.

<img alt="The Skills section of an agent with a switch for each skill" src={__img0} placeholder="blur" />

The change applies from the next run. When no skill is installed, the section shows **No skills in this workspace's catalog yet.**

## Which skills an agent can use

Each skill shows a tag with its scope:

| Scope            | Where the skill is available                                                                                                                                                         |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Project**      | This project only.                                                                                                                                                                   |
| **Workspace**    | Every project in the workspace.                                                                                                                                                      |
| **Organization** | Every workspace in the organization. Organization skills are managed in the [Admin Panel](/docs/product/account-settings/cloud-enterprise-edition/admin-panel#ai-skills-enterprise). |

NocoDB does not offer **Personal** skills to agents. A personal skill is visible to one member only. With personal skills, an agent acts differently for each person who uses it.

## Add a skill

1. In the **Skills** section, click **Add new skill**. The **Install skills** dialog opens.
2. Find a skill on the **NocoDB** tab, or search public skills on the **Community** tab.
3. Click **Install** on the skill. The button changes to **Installed**.
4. Close the dialog.
5. In the **Skills** section, turn on the switch of the new skill. A new skill is off until you turn it on.

A skill that you add from the agent settings is installed in the project of the agent. It does not become available in other projects.

## Related

* [Instructions and files](/docs/agents/instructions)
* [NocoAI](/docs/product/noco-ai)

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## Related pages

- [Agents](https://nocodb.com/docs/agents.md): NocoDB agents are AI agents that work in a project: they read and change your tables, documents and code, answer in chat, and run on their own on a trigger.
- [AI Agents](https://nocodb.com/docs/agents/ai-agents.md): NocoDB is a no-code AI agent builder for business: AI agents that work on your tables and documents, answer in chat, and run agentic workflows on triggers.
- [Create an AI Agent](https://nocodb.com/docs/agents/create-agent.md): How to create an AI agent in NocoDB: describe the job in a setup chat or pick a template, then review and turn it on. NocoAI can also build it.
- [AI Agent Use Cases and Templates](https://nocodb.com/docs/agents/use-cases.md): AI agent use cases and examples for sales, customer service, marketing, operations and project management: 13 NocoDB templates to start from.
- [Instructions and Files](https://nocodb.com/docs/agents/instructions.md): Write the instructions of a NocoDB agent as a brief for a teammate, mention tables and documents with @, and attach files that the agent reads on every run.
- [Tools and Access](https://nocodb.com/docs/agents/tools-and-access.md): Set the AI agent tools of a NocoDB agent: what it can read and change in tables, records, documents and the web, its project role and its managed machine.
- [Triggers and Results](https://nocodb.com/docs/agents/triggers.md): Build an AI agent workflow in NocoDB with triggers: a schedule, record changes, comments, forms or webhooks. Send the results to chat, email or Slack.
- [Channels](https://nocodb.com/docs/agents/channels.md): Connect a NocoDB agent to a Telegram channel so people can message it outside NocoDB, and choose which messages it answers and who can reach it.