Skills and Plugins
Two ways to extend an AI assistant: skills teach it reusable know-how, plugins give it new powers. What each is, how they differ, and how to add or write your own.
- Skills: Reusable Know-How A skill is packaged instructions and reference files the assistant loads only when a task calls for it, so you stop re-explaining the same thing every session.
- Plugins: New Powers Plugins bundle commands, tools, and connectors that let the assistant reach outside systems and take real actions, going beyond what guidance alone can do.
- Adding and Writing Your Own How to install a skill or plugin someone else built, then author a small skill of your own - its description, its instructions, and what makes it trigger.