> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tryinvesti.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What skills are

> Skills are reusable workflows that teach the analyst your process. Opt-in, visible, and removable. Never a default.

Out of the box, the analyst is unopinionated — it answers however you ask. Skills are how you give it a process: reusable workflows it follows with your rigor, every time.

A skill might encode value-investing checks in the style of Buffett, the way your firm writes initiation reports, or a due-diligence checklist entirely your own. The philosophy is always opt-in: chosen, visible, and removable. Never a default.

## How skills run

* **Automatically**: enabled skills are discovered by the analyst when they're relevant to what you asked.
* **Manually**: type `/` in chat followed by the skill's name, for example <span className="chip-inline chip-skill">{"/due-diligence-checklist"}</span>, to run any skill on demand, even one you've disabled for automatic use.

```text theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"}}
/due-diligence-checklist $NVDA
```

## What a skill is, technically

A skill is a plain-text `SKILL.md` file: YAML frontmatter with a name and description, followed by the instructions the analyst follows when the skill is active. Skills can bundle reference files and assets alongside the instructions. Because they're plain text on an open standard, they're portable in both directions: bring skills in from GitHub, take yours anywhere.

<Info>
  Investi follows [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io), the open `SKILL.md` standard originally published by Anthropic and adopted across other agent tools, including Cursor. Write a skill once and it works anywhere that reads the same format.
</Info>

Skills steer *how* the analyst works — its method and rigor. They never change *what* it may write on your behalf: note edits still go through [your approval](/analyst/approvals).

## The Skills view

Open **Skills** in the left navigation to manage everything:

* A single search box filters your installed skills and the catalog, and accepts a pasted GitHub URL for [importing](/skills/installing).
* Each skill has an enable/disable toggle (for automatic discovery) and opens in the editor on click.
* **Browse skills** shows the curated catalog, with one-click installs like *Thesis tracker*, *Financial statement analysis*, *Earnings analysis*, *Initiating coverage*, *Comparable companies*, and *Due-diligence checklist*.

<Card title="Write your own skill" href="/skills/writing-skills">
  The SKILL.md format, the built-in editor, and tips for skills that actually steer.
</Card>