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# Sidekick skills
> Save your company's own procedures as named skills Sidekick can follow.
A skill is a named, reusable procedure Sidekick follows. SideShift ships a few built-in
ones, and your company can save its own - the way you write a weekly report, the checks
you run before approving a video, how you brief a new creator. Once saved, a skill is
available to everyone in the company: Sidekick picks it up when a request matches, or
anyone can run it explicitly with `/name`.
Skills are scoped to the company that saved them. The one exception is an agency
sub-account, which also inherits its parent agency's skills - see below.
## Where to find it
* In chat, open the composer **+** menu and choose **Skills**. The **Directory** opens on
its Skills section - the same modal **Connectors** opens.
* From the Sidekick panel menu, choose **Manage skills**.
* Or go straight to
[Sidekick → Skills](https://app.sideshift.app/sidekick/skills).
Every one of them shows the same three groups: **Your skills** (editable), **From your agency**
(read-only, if you have a parent agency account), and **Built-in** (read-only).
## Create a skill
From the composer **+** menu → **Skills**, or on the Skills page.
**Name** is the slash command. **Title** is the display name. **Description** is what
Sidekick matches a request against. **Instructions** is the procedure itself.
The skill is live immediately for every member of the company.
The **Description** is the field that matters most. It is not a summary - it is the
trigger text Sidekick reads to decide whether a request calls for this skill. Write it
like a good tool description: say when to use the skill, and when *not* to.
Edit or delete a skill from its row in the same list.
## Ask Sidekick to save one
You don't have to fill in the form. Tell Sidekick to save what you just worked through -
"save that as a skill", "remember how to do this" - and it drafts all four fields from the
conversation.
Nothing is written until you confirm. Sidekick shows you the draft and a six-character
confirmation code, and you reply with that exact code (for example `Confirm K7P2XM`). The
skill is saved only in that later turn, and the code expires after 15 minutes - if it
lapses, ask again and confirm the fresh code. Saving under a name that already exists
updates that skill, subject to the same edit permission below.
## How Sidekick uses a skill
Two routes, both available to every member:
* **Automatic** - when a request matches a skill's description, Sidekick loads the skill
and follows its instructions.
* **Explicit** - type `/` in the composer to see your skills alongside the built-ins, or
send a message starting with `/name` to invoke one directly.
Sidekick treats your skills exactly like the built-ins once loaded.
## Who can edit and delete
| Action | Who |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| Create a skill | Any member of the company |
| Edit or delete a skill | The member who created it, or a company admin or owner |
| Use a skill | Any member of the company |
Editing is not restricted to admins on purpose - the person who wrote a skill keeps
control of it. If you need someone else's skill changed and you are not an admin, ask
them or an admin to make the change.
## Agency accounts
A sub-account under an agency parent also sees the agency's skills, grouped under **From
your agency** and marked with a badge. They work exactly like the sub-account's own skills
in chat.
They are read-only from the sub-account: there are no Edit or Delete buttons, and the
agency's own account is the only place to change them. A sub-account can, however, save
its own skill using the same name - its own skill then takes precedence over the inherited
one for that company.
## Limits and validation
| Field | Rule |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Name** | 2-64 characters: lowercase letters, digits, and dashes, starting with a letter or digit. A leading `/` is stripped. Must be unique within the company. |
| **Title** | 1-120 characters |
| **Description** | 1-400 characters |
| **Instructions** | 1-24,576 bytes of markdown (24 KB) |
| **Per company** | 25 skills. Delete one before adding another once you hit the cap. |
Inherited agency skills do not count toward your company's 25.
### Reserved names
The built-in skill names are reserved and cannot be used for a custom skill:
| Name | Skill |
| -------------------- | ------------------ |
| `boost-post` | Boost a post |
| `create-campaign` | Create a campaign |
| `find-creators` | Find creators |
| `fund-wallet` | Fund the wallet |
| `grill-my-brief` | Grill my brief |
| `hire-creator` | Hire a creator |
| `invoice-client` | Invoice a client |
| `message-creators` | Message creators |
| `performance-report` | Performance report |
| `post-job` | Post a job |
| `quickpay` | Quick Pay someone |
| `resolve-dispute` | Resolve a dispute |
| `review-applicants` | Review applicants |
| `review-content` | Review content |
| `run-payouts` | Run payouts |
| `write-brief` | Write a brief |
Custom skills are an in-app Sidekick feature. They are not exposed through the
[SideShift MCP server](/mcp-server): an external MCP client cannot save a skill, and
`invoke_skill` there returns the built-in skills only. Use Sidekick in the app to create,
edit, and run your company's skills.