# Skills: reusable playbooks for Beagle

> What Beagle skills are and how to use them: install playbooks like standup digests and weekly reports from the skills store, edit their instructions, or ask Beagle to write a new one.

Canonical page: https://www.heybeagle.com/docs/skills

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.

## Read next

- [Scheduled tasks](https://www.heybeagle.com/docs/scheduled-tasks): Running a skill on a schedule
- [Workflows](https://www.heybeagle.com/workflows): Recipes for common multi-tool jobs
- [Getting started](https://www.heybeagle.com/docs/getting-started): Setup in four steps

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