Skills

A skill is a set of instructions for Cleve that you can reuse. Instead of typing “Review this like a senior editor: check structure first, then clarity, then tone…” every time, save it once as a skill and run it with / in chat. Skills can come from three places:

• Your own. Write a skill in a few seconds, or ask Cleve to write one for you.
• The marketplace. Install skills other people have published.
• The open skills ecosystem. Install any skill in the open SKILL.md format, from GitHub or skills.sh.

New accounts start with a few of Cleve’s own skills already installed.

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Run a skill

1. In the chat message box, type /.
2. Pick a skill from Recent, My Skills, or Installed. Keep typing to filter the list, use the arrow keys, and press Enter to choose.
3. The skill appears as a badge (for example /Code Reviewer) at the start of the message box. Add anything you want to say, or send it as it is.

Cleve follows the skill’s instructions for that message. The message shows a skill badge you can hover to see what the skill does.

• To browse every skill, click See all in the / list, or click + in the message box and choose Add skill.
• To remove the skill before sending, press Backspace in an empty message box.
• If a skill is set to a specific model, choosing it switches the chat to that model.

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Create a skill

You can create a skill from any of these places:

• Settings → Skills, then Create Skill
• The + button at the top of the / list in chat
• Marketplace in the sidebar, then the New skill card under My Skills

Fill in:

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Write a good prompt

• Say what role Cleve should take and what the result should look like.
• Describe the steps in order if the order matters.
• Include an example of good output if you have one.
• Keep it general enough to work on different docs. Whatever you type when you run the skill fills in the specifics.

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Edit or delete a skill

Open Settings → Skills. It lists the skills you’ve created and installed.

• Click the pencil to edit a skill you created, then Save Changes.
• Click the trash icon to delete a skill you created. Deleting is permanent, and it also removes the skill for anyone who installed it.

You can also click a skill on the Marketplace page and choose Edit.

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Install skills from the marketplace

1. Click Marketplace in the sidebar, and make sure the Skills tab is selected.
2. Search, or filter by category. Results include skills from the Cleve community and from skills.sh.
3. Click a skill to see what it does, then click Install Skill (or Install for a skills.sh skill).

Installed skills appear under Installed when you type / in chat. To remove one, open it in the marketplace and click Uninstall. Uninstalling only removes it from your account.

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Skills from skills.sh

Before you install a skills.sh skill, its page shows its instructions, its files, and any Security audits from skills.sh’s audit partners. If an audit flags the skill as dangerous, the button changes to Install anyway.

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Install a skill from GitHub or a link

1. Go to Settings → Skills and click Install from URL.
2. Under From URL, enter a GitHub repository (for example anthropics/skills), a GitHub folder link, a skills.sh page, or a direct link to a SKILL.md file. Click Look up.
3. If the source contains several skills, tick the ones you want. Click Review instructions to read a skill before you install it.
4. Click Install.

You can also choose Paste SKILL.md and paste a skill’s contents directly. Installing from the same source again updates the skill in place. Skills you install this way show where they came from in Settings → Skills. Some skills bundle scripts and show Has scripts. Cleve doesn’t run bundled scripts, but the skill’s instructions still work.

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Ask Cleve to manage skills

In chat, you can ask Cleve to do any of this for you. For example:

• “Turn the review instructions I just gave you into a skill called Editor.”
• “Update my Editor skill so it also checks headings.”
• “Find a skill for writing release notes and install it.”
• “Install the pdf skill from anthropics/skills.”

Cleve needs Edit mode to create, change, install, or remove skills. It asks for your approval before it deletes a skill or installs one from a link. See Chat with Cleve.

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Publish a skill

Publishing shares a skill on the marketplace, where anyone using Cleve can find and install it, and makes it discoverable on cleve.ai.

• To publish: edit the skill and turn on Publish to marketplace, or ask Cleve to publish it.
• To unpublish: turn the switch off. New people can no longer find it, but anyone who already installed it keeps it.

Published skills show a globe icon in Settings → Skills. In the marketplace, your unpublished skills show a Draft badge under My Skills. Check a skill’s prompt for anything private before you publish it. For sharing docs as Resources, see Publishing.

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Explore skills from the setup checklist

The Set up workspace checklist in the sidebar includes Explore skills. It’s ticked off the first time you open the Marketplace. See Set up your workspace.

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