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Custom skills are the core of your Coconut instance and can help in a wide variety of scenarios, including intelligence gathering, content creation, specification creation, and more.

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Creating your first skill

After selecting Skills from the left-hand navigation, click Create New to begin. You can then populate the following fields:
  • Name — a memorable name for the skill.
  • Description — a quick summary of the skill’s capabilities.
  • Skill Instructions — detailed instructions on what the skill should do (e.g. scrape the web for news about electric cars, send an email, search Google Drive, etc.).
  • Tools — tools to help it carry out those instructions.
Tools (a.k.a. MCP servers) are particularly important, as they are what let the underlying language model (such as Claude Code) connect to third‑party services.

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Using your custom skills

Custom skills can be used in a variety of ways:
  • Directly.
  • From within a coding agent.
  • From within a scheduled job.
For example, a coding agent can call into a custom skill to send an email once it finishes its tasks.