Agent skills

BuildAutomaton supports agent skills for the agents connected to your bridge. We detect skills in standard locations and can install skills from templates for agents that don’t have them.

Where we look for skills

We detect skills in:

  • .agents (primary location)
  • Other agent-specific directories your agent documents

When you run a skill from Slack (automated or one-off), the bridge uses the agent on your machine; skills in these locations are available. We report what skills exist on each bridge so the workspace knows.

Installing skills from templates

You can install skills from templates in two ways:

  • Our templates — use the skills we define
  • Git repo — add a repo + path that contains skills (e.g. skills/). Can be a public community repo

When a skill is needed—for a trigger or for creating tool blocks—we show what’s available from your configured sources. You choose what to install; the bridge installs it into .agents.

How we use skills

The agent uses skills for Slack-driven work:

  • Automated conversations
  • One-off requests
  • Trigger skills (e.g. write-tests, daily standup)
  • The skill that teaches creating tool blocks

We make sure your agent knows about the skills you might want. If a skill isn’t in .agents yet, you can install it from a template (ours or a git repo).