Skills

Skills let you cluster related tasks, projects, and workflows around shared expertise. A skill can be anything: a domain, a technology, or a role. You can assign skills to people, filter any task list by skill, or use skills as metadata in saved views.

Tip

Use skills to surface specialized work: “React”, “Schema Design”, “Customer Research”, or “Onboarding”. Assign a skill to a person, and watch it surface in searches, assignments, and saved views.

Create & assign skills

Skills are scoped to: personal (for you), project (for a board), or team (for all members of that team). When you assign a skill to a person, the assignment is also scoped to the skillâ\x80\x99s.scope, so a team-level skill appears in each projectâ\x80\x99s skill list.

1. Open Skill management

   • Use the Ctrl+K command palette and search for “Skills”, or go to the Settings > Skills page.

2. Create a skill

   • Click New Skill.
   • Give it a name (e.g., “Python” or “Design System”).
   • Optionally add a description.
   • Choose the scope:
     • Personal â\x80\x94 skill available only to you.
     • Project â\x80\x94 skill available on a specific board/project.
     • Team â\x80\x94 skill available to all members of your team, regardless of project.

3. Assign a person

   • On the skill card, click Assign People.
   • Search for a team member and add them.
   • Assignments are scoped: a personal skill assignment is only visible to you; a project assignment is only visible on that projectâ\x80\x99s board.

4. Backlog/assign tasks by skill

   • Filter a task list by skill using the skill picker.
   • Or assign a skill to a task to tag it for later filtering or reporting.
   • Saved views can also explicitly filter by skill.

Available from / commands and AI chat

Skills are now surfaced both in the / menu and in the AI chat composer, so you can quickly insert shared expertise patterns without leaving your flow.

• Comment composer — open the / menu to browse skills. Select a skill to insert its slug directly into the comment text. Press Enter again to send your full message.
• AI chat — in AI chat, press / to open the menu, pick a skill, and continue typing your prompt. Enter selects the skill and keeps your message unsent until you press Enter a second time.

This makes it easy to:

• Add consistent templates or meta tags to comments (e.g., /minimalist-review)
• Ask the AI to reference a specific skill when answering (e.g., “Asking the React skill…”)
• Streamline workflows where a particular skill name appears repeatedly in conversations

Tip

Only tasks with an assigned skill or a matching person+skill combination will show up when you filter by that skill on a board or in a saved view.

Example agent task filter

An agent that handles “Frontend bugs” might:

• Ask: “List 5 tasks with the 'React' or 'Frontend' skill and assigned to me.”
• Use a saved view that filters by skill “React” and priority “High”.

Saved view example

Create a saved view named “React on deck”:

• Filter by Skill = “React”
• Filter by Priority = “High”
• Sort by Due Date ascending

Result: a view that always surfaces the most urgent React work.

Keyboard workflow

Quickly assign or filter by skill using your keyboard:

• Ctrl+K â\x80\x94 Command palette; start typing “Skill” to find:

  • Skills â\x80\x94 Open Skill management.
  • Filter tasks by skill â\x80\x94 Pop up the skill selector.

• Use the skill picker in a board or task detail to click or navigate with arrow keys to select skills.

Data model (for integrators)

• Scope â\x80\x94 personal | project | team.
• A skill on a board applies only when that board is opened.
• A project skill applies across all boards in that project.
• A team skill applies automatically to all boards that your team owns.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Use keyboard workflows to surf tasks and filter by skill.

CLI Reference

Manage skills from the terminal with full CRUD and import.

Agent Workflows

Patterned ways agents can pick up and complete work scoped by skill.