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How To Add AI Agent Skills

Every time you start a task, your AI agent starts from scratch. Agent Skills change that – they let you encode real expertise, your team’s workflows, your brand voice, and your processes into something the agent carries with it every time. Build it once, use it everywhere.

What Are Agent Skills?

Agent Skills is a lightweight, open standard for giving AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows. At their core, a skill is simply a folder containing a SKILL.md file – with a name, description, and instructions the agent follows whenever a relevant task comes up.

ai agent skills from ajelix

4 Ways To Add Skill To Your Account

1. Pick from a ready-made library

Ajelix ships with an ever-growing skill library covering content, marketing, growth, data, design, and more. New skills are added every week.

2. Upload any skill from the web

Found a skill on GitHub or in the community? Paste the link directly into Ajelix, and it loads automatically.

3. Build a fully custom skill for your team

This is where things get powerful. You can encode your team’s tone of voice, writing style, branding guidelines, or specific workflows directly into the agent, so it works exactly the way you need it to, every time.

4. Use Ajelix Skill-Creator to build your skills

Rather not write your own skill? Activate Skill-Creator and describe what you need. This official Ajelix skill generates complete, ready-to-use skills from your descriptions – no technical expertise required. Use it to build from scratch, refine existing skills, or get help with structure and best practices anytime you want to package knowledge into a reusable format.

How To Set Up Agent Skills?

Step 1: Open the Skills Tab

  1. Log into your Ajelix account
  2. Click the Skills tab in the sidebar
Click the Skills tab in Ajelix

2. Click the Skills tab in the sidebar

Explore Ajelix AI Agent Skills

Step 2: Choose How You Want to Add a Skill

Option 1: From the library

  1. Browse the available skills
  2. Click “Install” on any skill you want to activate
  3. Choose whether to apply the skill to this project only or across all projects.
Choose skills from the Ajelix library

Option 2: From the web

1. Find a skill on GitHub or any compatible source

Github Skills screenshot
An example of a skill found on GitHub for visual creation.

2. Download the raw file
3. Compress it to a .zip file

If you’re not sure how to compress a file into a .zip, simply right-click on the file, select “Compress to…”, and choose “ZIP File”.

How to compress a file into a .zip by Ajelix

4. Open the “My Skills” tab to the right of “Explore”
5. Import the compressed file into Ajelix and choose whether to apply it to this project only or across all projects.

How to import .zip file skill into Ajelix

Option 3: Create your own custom skill

1. Open the “My Skills” tab to the right of “Explore”
2. Click “Create skill

How to create a skill in Ajelix

3. Choose where you would like to install the skill — in this project or across all projects.
4. Write a skill name, description, and skill content.

Create your own skill in Ajelix

5. Click “Create Skill” and you’re done!

Not sure what to write in your skill? 

You can upload your own data, let AI analyze it, and build a skill directly from the insights:

1. Export data from any platform you use – LinkedIn, YouTube, Google Analytics, your CRM, sales reports, email campaigns, or anything else you can export as a file.
2. Drop the file into Ajelix chat

Upload file in Ajelix

3. Ask AI to analyze it – have it find patterns, what works, what doesn’t, and what you should focus on.

Ask Ajelix AI to analyze data

4. Review the insights AI generates.

Review the insights Ajelix AI generated

5. Go back to “Create skill” paste those insights into the skill content, and save it – your skill is now built around your own data and tailored specifically to you.

Option 4: Create a skill using Ajelix Skill-Creator

1. Install “Skill-Creator” from the skills list

How to install Ajelix skill-creator

2. Describe what you want the skill to do – for example:

  • “Create a marketing skill that follows our campaign planning process”
  • “Build a LinkedIn writing skill in our CEO’s tone of voice”
  • “Make a skill that understands our specific data format and KPIs”

Make sure to add details about your process, share examples, or explain specific knowledge the skill should include.

Describe what you want the Ajelix skill to do

3. Skill-Creator generates a complete skill file with proper structure and instructions, then automatically adds it to your “My Skills” tab.

Skill is created by Ajelix

4. Review, edit if needed – your skill is ready to use!

Review, edit Ajelix skill if needed

Step 3: Start Using Your Skill

That’s it. Once activated, your agent will start applying the skill immediately – no extra setup needed. Every relevant task will now follow the expertise and instructions you’ve encoded into it.

We’re actively working on Ajelix documentation to help you get the most from AI. Found a gap, have feedback, or want to suggest a new guide? We’d love to hear from you at support@ajelix.com

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