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Skills are playbooks.

Updated 2026-07-14

A skill is a reusable playbook Beagle can run on demand: a standup digest, a weekly report, a triage pass. Skills live in a store you browse from the Behavior page; install the ones you want, and Beagle uses them when the moment fits. Any skill's instructions can be edited, and Beagle can write a new skill for a job you do often.

What a skill contains

A skill is written instructions for a job: what to gather, what the deliverable looks like, where it should land. Because the instructions are plain language, reading a skill tells you exactly what Beagle will do - and editing it changes the behaviour immediately, with nothing to redeploy.

Installing skills

Browse the skills store on the Behavior page and install what fits your team - digests, reports, triage passes and more. Installed skills become part of how Beagle works in your workspace: it draws on them when a request or a schedule matches the job.

Writing your own

For a job the store does not cover, ask Beagle to write the skill: describe the job once - what to pull, what the output should look like, who approves it - and Beagle drafts the playbook. Approve it, and the job is repeatable from then on. You can also edit any skill's instructions by hand whenever the job changes.

FAQ

What is a Beagle skill?
A reusable playbook - written instructions for a recurring job like a standup digest, a weekly report, or a triage pass. Beagle runs it on demand or on schedule, and the instructions can be read and edited in plain language.

Where do skills come from?
Two places: the skills store on the Behavior page, which has ready-made playbooks to install, and Beagle itself, which can write a new skill from your description of a job you do often.

Can I change what a skill does?
Yes. Open the skill and edit its instructions. Because skills are plain language, the edit is the change - there is nothing to rebuild or redeploy.

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