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title: "Skills"
description: "Reusable instructions that RShift applies when a matching task comes up."
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# Skills

Skills are reusable, on-demand workflows. Package focused instructions, playbooks, and checklists once, and RShift applies the matching skill when the task calls for it.

## When to use a skill

- A task repeats with the same standards.
- A process has required steps or checks.
- Different people need to produce the same shape of output.

## How skills work

A skill declares when it applies and what it should do. When a request matches, RShift loads the skill into the run so the output follows it. Skills are workspace-scoped and versioned.

Source: https://help.rshift.com/rshift-ai/skills/index.mdx