Use Skills

What are Skills?

Skills are reusable workflow recipes. They turn a one-off conversation into a reusable execution asset by packaging goals, steps, and constraints together.

The Skill package format is compatible with the Agent Skills ecosystem, so many open-source Skills can be uploaded directly into ConsoleX.

Compared with using Skills locally, there are two main differences in ConsoleX:

1. Skills are stored in cloud file storage instead of on your local machine.
2. Scripts run in a cloud sandbox instead of your local environment.

ConsoleX includes preset Skills, and you can also create your own custom Skills.

Use Skills in a conversation

There are two ways to use Skills in conversations:

1. Global mode

   In global mode, enabled Skills are automatically applied to all new conversations.

2. Current conversation mode

   By default, new conversations start with no Skills attached, so you manually add only the Skills needed for that task.

Below the message input area, ConsoleX shows which Skills are available in the current session and whether they are being used in global mode or current conversation mode. Click that area to open the resource panel and inspect the enabled Skills.

How Skills are loaded and executed

Skills follow a progressive loading pattern. When a new conversation starts, metadata from enabled Skills is injected into the system prompt. The model first evaluates that metadata. If a Skill appears relevant to the current context, the model loads the Skill’s detailed documentation (SKILL.md) and related resources.

When the detailed Skill documentation is loaded, the tools and MCP servers associated with that Skill are loaded into the conversation as well.

If the Skill needs to run scripts, the model loads those script files into a cloud sandbox and executes them there. You can also define environment variables when creating a Skill, and those variables are initialized inside the sandbox when execution starts.