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Automation & Extensions

Plugins and skills

Install official plugins and use skills to teach the agent the procedure for recurring tasks.

A skill is the procedure and conditions of use an agent follows for a specific task. A plugin is a package that bundles several skills (along with agents, MCP servers, and event hooks), and you can install it from the official marketplace in one step.

Install a plugin

Browse the official marketplace under Settings → AI Agent → Plugins.

The Plugins page with Catalog and Installed tabs, category filters, and recommended plugins such as doc-quality, specify-docs, and medical-device-docs
  1. On the Catalog tab, filter by category (Productivity, Communication, Development, Design, Marketing, Finance, Legal) or search.
  2. Select a plugin to review its Included components and Requested permissions.
  3. Select + or Install. You can find installed plugins on the Installed tab and Remove them there.

The agents in this workspace use the installed skills.

Key official plugins

PluginDescription
specify-docsOfficial Specify document skills
doc-qualityDocument quality review skill bundle
eng-qualityEngineering quality skills, such as incident postmortems and technical document quality
medical-device-docsMedical device software document pack (IEC 62304, ISO 14971), grounded in code and standards
productivity-meetingsMeeting productivity skills, such as organizing minutes and extracting action items
marketing-contentMarketing content skills, such as content briefs and campaign copy

medical-device-docs searches and cites standard clauses as it writes documents. See Standards library.

Import from GitHub

Use Add → Import GitHub repo on the Plugins page to import a plugin from a GitHub repository. Enter the GitHub repo URL and, optionally, a Branch, tag, or commit.

Manage skills

See your workspace's skills under Settings → Tools & skills → Skills.

The Skills page with All, My skills, Agent-learned, and Plugins tabs and a list of active skill cards
  • Filter by source with the All · My skills · Agent-learned · Plugins tabs.
  • Select Add to create a new skill. Write the Procedure (body) in Markdown along with a name, description, version, and tags.
  • Pin skills you use often to keep them at the top of the list.
  • Use Export SKILL.md to download a skill as a file.

A good skill makes it clear when to use it and in what order to work. Put the conditions of use in the description, and the steps and completion criteria in the procedure.

Agent learning

The agent automatically saves what it learns from conversations as memories and skills. Under Settings → AI Agent → Agent Learning, review Activity, Memory, Skills, and Curator history, delete memories you don't need, or roll a skill change back to an earlier version.

Use skills in document projects

The document skills you choose when you create a document project are the same skills. If no document skills are installed, you can find one in the marketplace or create your own, and you can use up to 5 auxiliary skills alongside it.