# Skills

> Teach Lindy how you work: reusable playbooks it picks up on its own when a request calls for them.

[Video: Teach Lindy a repeatable process](https://www.lindy.ai/_sherpa/assets/static/docs/b137a8434d45-15-skills.mp4)

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A skill is a playbook you teach Lindy: a named set of instructions for a procedure you repeat, like *how I write my weekly report*, *how I triage my inbox*, or *how I prep for a customer call*. Describe the process once, and from then on Lindy picks the right skill whenever a request calls for it. You never have to remember to invoke one.

Think of skills as everything Lindy can do, plus what it can learn from you.

## How to Set It Up

NOTE: 

Open **Skills** from the left sidebar to see every skill Lindy has, create new ones, edit their instructions, and turn them on or off.

## Create a skill

You can also teach a process by recording your screen or uploading a walkthrough. [Watch and Learn](https://www.lindy.ai/docs/teammate/watch-and-learn) helps you review the steps with Lindy and save them as a skill.

### In chat

Tell Lindy how you want something handled, like *“When I ask for my weekly report, pull the numbers from the dashboard, lead with the top three changes, and keep it under a page.”* It saves the process as a skill and uses it from then on.

[Video: Lindy walkthrough](https://www.lindy.ai/_sherpa/assets/static/docs/7171160502b6-skill-create-in-chat.mp4)

### On the Skills page

Click **New skill**, give it a name and a description, and write the instructions. The description matters: it’s how Lindy decides when the skill applies.

[Video: Lindy walkthrough](https://www.lindy.ai/_sherpa/assets/static/docs/76fe79690e66-createskillonpage.mp4)

## Three kinds of skills

### Your skills

Personal to you. Lindy uses them only for your requests.

### Team skills

Shared across your workspace, so everyone’s Lindy works the same way. Managed by workspace admins.

### Built-in skills

Ready to use out of the box. Browse the library and install the ones you want.

[Video: Lindy walkthrough](https://www.lindy.ai/_sherpa/assets/static/docs/47c305d5c860-skills-scopes-discover.mp4)

You can customize any built-in skill by making your own version, then editing it like a skill you wrote yourself.

## How Lindy picks a skill

Lindy always sees the list of available skills, just their names and descriptions. It loads a skill’s full instructions only when the skill is actually relevant to what you asked. That way it has the right expertise on hand without slowing anything down.

[Video: Lindy walkthrough](https://www.lindy.ai/_sherpa/assets/static/docs/3a1c06accfd2-skill-in-action.mp4)

## Good to know

- **Turn skills off, don’t delete them**: flip a skill off on the Skills page when you want Lindy to stop using it but might want it back.

- **Descriptions do the routing**: if Lindy isn’t picking a skill when you expect, make its description more specific about when it applies.

## Relevant Docs

### [Routines](https://www.lindy.ai/docs/teammate/routines)

Standing instructions that run on a schedule

### [Ad Hoc Tasks](https://www.lindy.ai/docs/features/ad-hoc-tasks)

One-off jobs you hand to Lindy on the spot