Skills

Reusable capabilities for production agents.

Package instructions, resources, and executable workflows into reusable skills that agents can activate under runtime control and teams can observe during every run.

Deployment
Available skills
├─ refund-policy
├─ escalation-playbook
└─ incident-response
Agent activates skill
Trace records usage

Agents should not relearn the same procedure in every deployment.

Production teams repeat the same operational patterns across agents: support escalation, incident response, onboarding, compliance review, deployment playbooks, and data workflows. Skills turn those patterns into reusable capabilities.

Instructions, resources, and workflows in one capability package.

Step-by-step guidance for specific procedures
Examples and documentation to ground decisions
Structured procedures for consistent execution
Supporting logic and validation rules
Scripts and tools run in controlled environments
Clear contracts for skill activation and results
When and how to apply the skill effectively

Available when attached. Activated when relevant.

Skills are attached to deployments and become available only in the right runtime context. sypho records when a skill is available, when it is activated, and how it influences execution.

skill.available: refund-policy
skill.activated: refund-policy
skill.resource.used: templates/refund-review.md
skill.execution.completed

Some skills do more than provide instructions.

Skills can include executable resources such as scripts or workflow helpers. sypho runs them inside controlled execution environments and records the outcome as part of the run trace.

Skill usage should be visible, not hidden in prompts.

When a skill is activated, teams should see it in the run timeline alongside tool calls, knowledge queries, logs, approvals, and results.

Why teams use skills in sypho.

Reusable best practices

Turn repeatable procedures into shared capabilities.

Less prompt duplication

Stop copying long instructions across every agent.

Governed access

Control which deployments can use which skills.

Observable activation

See when skills are available, activated, and used.

Executable workflows

Safely combine instructions with controlled workflow helpers.

Package what your agents need to know how to do.

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