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Skills ​

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

Some Skills are practical one-shots, like showing a QR code for the current page, saving a page as a PDF, or grabbing a YouTube transcript. Others wrap up a longer routine you do often. Either way, the point is the same: describe it once, reuse it forever.

Built-in Skills and your own ​

There are two kinds of Skills:

  • Built-in Skills — a set Phi provides and maintains, ready to use.
  • Your own Skills — 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 on its own when your request matches what it does. You can also bring a Skill into a conversation yourself — pick it from the Skills list when you are writing a message, including from the new tab's ask box — when you want to be explicit about which one to use.

What's next ​