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A skill teaches Notis how to do something — your writing voice, your formatting rules, your repeated workflows. Where automations decide when Notis runs, skills decide how it executes once it does.

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What is a skill?

A skill is a small folder with:
  • SKILL.md — required. Plain text instructions plus a short description Notis uses to decide when to load it.
  • scripts/ — optional. Executable code (Python, Bash) Notis can run.
  • references/ — optional. Reference docs loaded on demand.
  • assets/ — optional. Templates, images, or other files used in outputs.
Notis dispatches skills automatically based on each one’s description, the same way it picks the right tool. You don’t invoke them manually — when a request matches, Notis loads the skill and follows its instructions.

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Built-in skills

Notis ships with a growing library of skills for work that needs real execution, not just a text answer:
  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint - generate, edit, and export full Office documents.
  • PDF - create, edit, combine, split, and render PDFs with layout control.
  • Browser Agent - navigate websites, fill forms, extract data, and take screenshots.
  • Research and publishing - gather sources, draft content, format it, and save it to connected apps.
These skills can run on the Cloud Computer, which gives Notis a secure cloud workspace for files, scripts, CLIs, browsers, spreadsheets, and presentations.

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Install a skill

Two ways to add one: From the catalog
  1. Open your Notis portal
  2. Go to Skills
  3. Browse the curated catalog and click Install on the ones you want
The search bar at the top of the Skills page searches across two sources at once: the Notis-curated catalog and the open skills.sh community registry. As you type, results from skills.sh appear inline alongside the built-in skills — pick any of them and click Install to add it to your workspace. From a chat
“Install the PDF skill.”
“Add a skill that drafts LinkedIn posts from rough notes.”
Notis picks from the catalog and confirms. Done.

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Create your own

The fastest path is to ask Notis directly:
“Create a skill that drafts apartment-listing descriptions in my voice. Here are 5 examples I wrote.”
“Create a skill that turns voice notes into structured product requirements with the sections: Problem, User, Acceptance, Open Questions.”
Notis runs the skill creator, drafts a SKILL.md, and saves it to your account. You’ll see it in the portal Skills page and it’ll be available everywhere immediately. For richer skills with scripts or assets, build the folder locally and upload a zip from the portal: 
my-skill/
  SKILL.md
  scripts/format.py
  assets/template.docx
Good descriptions matter more than long instructions. Notis decides when to load a skill based on its description — make it specific. “Drafts apartment listings in Florian’s voice” beats “Helps with writing”.

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Edit, pause, delete

From the Skills page in the portal:
  • Edit — open the skill, change the instructions, save. Takes effect on the next message.
  • Pause — stops dispatch without losing the skill. Useful when a skill is misfiring on unrelated requests.
  • Delete — removes it permanently.

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Where skills shine

  • Document creation — PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX templates with your branding baked in. See Documents.
  • Brand voice — keep social posts, blogs, and emails consistent across team members.
  • Repeated formatting — bug reports, meeting minutes, expense logs, weekly updates.
  • Multi-step workflows — research-then-draft, scrape-then-summarize, transcribe-then-route.
  • Design covers and illustrations — repeatable image-generation styles.

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Common questions

How is a skill different from an automation? An automation has a trigger (schedule, webhook, integration event) and runs Notis on its own. A skill has no trigger — it shapes how Notis behaves when you talk to it. They compose: an automation can use a skill. Where do community skills come from? The portal search pulls from skills.sh, an open registry of agent skills. Anything published there is one click away from being installed in your Notis workspace.