What is Agent Skill?

Explained

An agent skill bundles system guidance, tool contracts, examples, and eval hooks so a model can repeatedly perform a defined capability—e.g., ‘file an expense’ or ‘run a compliance check’. Skills are the unit of reuse between specs, runbooks, and orchestration layers like Synapse.

Further reading

• Enterprise AI Agents: Beyond Copilots to Your Next Digital Workforce
• OpenAI Agent Builder: Workflow Automation for Business Integration
• AI-Native Application Development: A C-Suite Guide

Related terms

• Orchestration Coordinating multiple services, agents, or models; central to Synapse.
• Synapse Thinkia's agentic platform; orchestrates agents, models, and workflows.
• Agent Agenda The agent’s live plan: ordered steps, open subtasks, and checkpoints toward a goal.
• Agent Planner Component or prompt pattern that proposes multi-step plans before tools run.
• Agentic AI AI systems that act autonomously, make decisions, and execute tasks in sequence.
• AI Agent Software entity that perceives its environment, makes decisions, and executes actions to achieve goals.