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  **Skills** are extensions that give AI agents specific abilities —
  first-party, well-supported add-ons in products like OpenAI's Codex app and
  Claude's Co-work that let users package a workflow or capability (a
  proofreader, a research format, a browser task) and reuse it with an
  agent.[^LfPNaoYMaRY@170]
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# \*\*Skills\*\*

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## Definition

**Skills** are extensions that give AI agents specific abilities — first-party, well-supported add-ons in products like OpenAI's Codex app and Claude's Co-work that let users package a workflow or capability (a proofreader, a research format, a browser task) and reuse it with an agent.[^LfPNaoYMaRY@170]

&lt;Section title='What Skills Are'&gt;**Skills** are extensions that give AI agents specific abilities beyond their base capabilities. In the channel's material they appear as a first-party, well-supported library in OpenAI's Codex app — extensions that give agents specific abilities, created not through a setup wizard but simply by chatting with the app: you say what you want it to do, and it works.[^LfPNaoYMaRY@170] [^LfPNaoYMaRY@194]&lt;/Section&gt;&lt;Section title='How Skills Are Used Across Products'&gt;- **Codex app**: Skills are one of the core components, alongside threads and workspaces. Paired with the new app experience, _agent skills_ made running multiple agents inviting even for less technical people, opening the browser and connecting to various services.[^AFHiiL-ZKms@181] [^AFHiiL-ZKms@256] Skills also combine with **automations**, which run a prompt on a schedule — like cron jobs for agents. One example: a skill that folds development takeaways into an agents.md file, running automatically.[^LfPNaoYMaRY@215] [^LfPNaoYMaRY@226]- **Claude Co-work**: Skills installed in Claude load automatically into Co-work, and an Anthropic team member on-stream named skills the _primary hackable surface_ of the product.[^01a0f15a-b23f-7d11-980f-dc3f7e8fc4b6@2685] The practical advice from the episode: **personalize with skills** — capture a style or workflow (a deep-research output format, a proofreader, even a 3D-print pipeline) and make a skill out of it.[^01a0f15a-b23f-7d11-980f-dc3f7e8fc4b6@4260]- **Dia (The Browser Company)**: Custom skills let users build AI-driven apps tailored to specific tasks, part of Dia's application platform layered on top of its memory system.[^242d36d6-cc1c-5d68-8d5d-6b26e8e467a1]&lt;/Section&gt;&lt;Section title='Why It Matters'&gt;Across all three products, skills represent the same shift: instead of configuring agents through settings or code, users **package a workflow once and reuse it**. Skills turn one-off agent behavior into a durable, shareable capability — whether that's a proofreader, a scheduled documentation updater, or a browser app for a specific task.&lt;/Section&gt;&lt;KeyPoints&gt;- **Skills** are extensions that give agents specific abilities, created by chatting rather than configuring.[^LfPNaoYMaRY@194]- In the **Codex app**, skills pair with automations to schedule agent work like cron jobs.[^LfPNaoYMaRY@215]- In **Claude Co-work**, skills auto-load from Claude and are called the primary hackable surface.[^01a0f15a-b23f-7d11-980f-dc3f7e8fc4b6@2685]- In **Dia**, custom skills are an application platform for task-specific AI tools.[^242d36d6-cc1c-5d68-8d5d-6b26e8e467a1]&lt;/KeyPoints&gt;