> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.qxlabs.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Skills

Skills give your agents ready-made expertise. Each one is a battle-tested playbook for a recurring task, curated by QX Labs, that you install into your organization's [workspace](/agents/persistent-workspace) in one click. Once a skill is installed, any agent with **Workspace Access** can use it, with no extra setup per agent.

## Find skills

Open **Explore** in the sidebar and stay on the **Skills** tab. Browse the catalog, filter by category, or search by name. Skills span a wide range of jobs, from research and marketing to sales and operations, and plenty more.

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Open any skill to see what it does. The **SKILL.md** tab describes it in plain language, and the **Files** tab lists everything it ships with. If a skill needs certain [connected apps](/connected-apps/overview) (say, a mailbox or a CRM), they are listed on its page under **Required apps**.

## Install a skill

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the skill and click Install Skill">
    On the skill's page, click **Install Skill** in the top right. If everything it needs is already connected, it installs right away.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Connect required apps, if asked">
    If the skill needs an app you haven't connected, the **Connect required apps** dialog opens. Link them now, or choose **Skip and install** and connect them later. Once all are connected, the button reads **Install**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="You're done">
    The skill installs into your organization's workspace and is ready to use. To update it later, open its page again and click **Reinstall**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

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Some skills come in **bundles** that cover a whole use case. A bundle's page has an **Install Bundle** button that installs every skill in it at once.

<Note>
  Skills install once for your whole organization. Anyone whose agents have Workspace Access can use them, so there is nothing to install per person or per agent.
</Note>

## Use a skill

You don't run a skill directly. Give an agent **Workspace Access** in the editor (or use the built-in QX agent, which already has it), then just ask for the task in [chat](/agents/chat). The agent finds the right installed skill and follows it on its own.

For example, with a research skill installed:

> Research acme.com and write me a one-page brief on their positioning.

The agent applies the skill's playbook and returns the result. See [Persistent Workspace](/agents/persistent-workspace) for more on Workspace Access.