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Browser Skills ​

A Browser Skill is a reusable instruction you hand to your assistant. Teach it a multi-step task once and you can trigger the whole thing with a single request from then on, instead of spelling out the steps every time. A recurring job becomes something the assistant just knows how to do.

Some Skills are practical one-shots: show a QR code for the current page, save a page as a PDF, grab a YouTube transcript. Others wrap up a longer routine you run often. Either way the point is the same. Describe it once, reuse it forever.

Not the same as the phi-browser skill

Browser Skills are what this page is about: instructions you give the assistant inside Phi. The phi-browser skill is a different thing entirely, a package that lets an outside AI agent such as Claude Code drive Phi from your terminal. Same word, two meanings, so we keep them apart: Browser Skills live in the browser, the phi-browser skill lives in your agent.

Built-in Skills and your own ​

There are two kinds:

  • Built-in Skills, a set Phi provides and maintains, ready to use.
  • Your own Skills, the ones you create for the way you work.

Built-in Skills are opt-in. They are there to browse, and you add the ones you want to your library rather than having everything switched on at once.

The Skills library ​

The Skills page is where you manage all of this. Open it from the menu in the top-right corner of the new tab, the same menu that holds your recent conversations and widgets, and choose Skills.

It opens with a spotlight of featured built-in Skills, and below that you can browse the full set. Filter by All, Built-in, User created, or Enabled, or search by name. It is the closest thing to a gallery of what your assistant can do.

For any Skill you can:

  • Add a built-in Skill to your library, and remove it later. You can always add it back.
  • Enable or disable a Skill without removing it, so you control which ones are active.
  • View a Skill's full details to see exactly what it does before you use it.

Creating your own ​

You are not limited to the built-in set. Phi includes a Skill Creator that helps you design and save a new Skill from a description of the task, so making one is itself a Skill you can just ask for. Your own Skills are plain instructions in your own words, and you can edit or delete them at any time as your routines change.

Using Skills in chat ​

Skills run through your assistant, not on their own. Once a Skill is enabled, the assistant can reach for it by itself when your request matches what it does. You can also bring one into a conversation yourself: pick it from the Skills list while you are writing a message, including from the new tab's ask box, when you want to be explicit about which one to use.

A Skill can act, so give it the same thought you would give yourself ​

Skills can do more than fetch and summarise. A Skill that fills forms, posts, or works through a site is doing that as you, from your browser, with your sessions. Two things follow.

Anything with consequences is still yours: a purchase, a message sent, a form submitted. Read what a Skill does before you enable it, which is what the View detail is for.

And some sites do not welcome automation. Reddit is the well-known example, where accounts detected as automated get restricted or banned, and that call is theirs rather than ours. If a Skill works through a site like that, you are taking that risk with your account. See the phi-browser skill for more on this.

What's next ​