> Index of every Falcon docs page, for assistants: https://falcon.com/docs/llms.txt

# Add a skill to an agent

On the agent's Skills page, check the company skills it may use and say when it uses each one.

Open the agent, then **Skills**. The page says **Check the company skills** that agent **may use. Open a checked one to say when it uses it.** The section is **What** that agent **may use**.

## Check a skill

- Check a published skill. It saves as you go. The page says **Saved.** While it saves, it says **Saving…**.
- Open the checked skill and fill **When to use it**. Leave it empty and the page uses the skill's description. A custom line is marked **Customised**. **Reset** is named **Reset when to use** that skill.
- A skill that still says **Draft** must be published first. The line is **Publish this skill before** the agent **can use it live.** See [Write a skill](https://falcon.com/docs/write-a-skill).
- A skill from the base says **Comes from** that base, **so it can't change here**. See [Base agent parts](https://falcon.com/docs/base-agent-parts).

When the company has no skills, the page says the agent **doesn't use any skills yet** and **The company has no skills yet. Write one with New skill.** **New skill** opens **Skills**. If someone else saved first, the page says **Someone else changed these skills while you had the page open. Reload to see their changes, then try again.** If a change is refused, it says **That change couldn't be saved.**

## Related

- [Build an agent](https://falcon.com/docs/build-an-agent)
- [Base agent parts](https://falcon.com/docs/base-agent-parts)
- [Write a skill](https://falcon.com/docs/write-a-skill)
- [Skill categories](https://falcon.com/docs/skill-categories)
- [Add a knowledge base](https://falcon.com/docs/add-a-knowledge-base)
- [Knowledge searches](https://falcon.com/docs/knowledge-searches)
- [Start a workflow](https://falcon.com/docs/start-a-workflow)
- [Before the agent](https://falcon.com/docs/preprocess)
- [Agents](https://falcon.com/docs/agents)
- [Workflows](https://falcon.com/docs/workflows)