Create and reuse skills

Use a skill when you repeat the same process and want Ventos to follow it consistently. Describe the procedure once, then ask for it by name the next time.

Create your first skill

Ventos writes skills for you. Ask it to create a skill and describe the repeatable process, inputs, and result you need. For example: “Create a personal skill for weekly client updates using these sections and tone.” Review the draft before using it.

You can also start from the Skills page: select Create in chat to open a chat with the request already filled in.

Use and improve a skill

• Use one — refer to it by name, or just describe the task; Ventos picks the matching skill. To make sure Ventos uses a specific skill, type / followed by the skill name, for example /weekly-client-update. This works in every channel and in scheduled tasks, and the web app suggests matching skills as you type.
• List and edit — ask what skills exist, or ask Ventos to refine one that isn’t quite right.

Skills follow the open agentskills.io format, so they’re plain text you can read and move elsewhere.

Choose who can use it

Ventos ships with built-in skills for the work it does most often — CRM lookups and updates, company analysis, document creation, web research. These are always available.

On top of those, you can add your own:

• Personal skills are yours. Only your conversations use them.
• Organization skills are shared with your whole organization. Anyone in the organization can invoke them, so a process one person works out becomes everyone’s.

What a skill can contain

A skill is a folder. At its core is a set of written instructions, and it can also hold:

• Text resources — reference notes, checklists, examples, or longer guidance Ventos reads only when the task needs them.
• Files — PDFs, HTML pages, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, images, and other documents, such as a report layout to copy or a sample deck to match.

Browse and manage skills on the Skills page

Open Skills from the sidebar to see every skill you can use. The page has two tabs:

• Org — skills shared across your organization.
• Personal — skills only you use.

Each tab groups skills into Skills, Doc templates, and Investment theses, and has a search box to find a skill by name or description.

Select a skill to open it. From there you can:

• Browse its files and folders, and open any file to read it.
• Create folders and new files, upload files, and edit or delete existing ones.
• Rename the skill or delete it entirely.
• Switch it On or Off. A skill that’s off stays saved, but Ventos doesn’t use it until you switch it back on.
• Select Use in chat or Edit in chat to continue in a conversation.

Everything you can do on this page, you can also ask Ventos to do in chat.

Doc templates and investment theses

Some skills connect to specific Ventos capabilities. They’re created and edited like any other skill, and appear in their own section on the Skills page.

• Doc templates describe how to produce a particular kind of document or report — for example an investment memo, a portfolio update, or a weekly pipeline summary. A doc template can include the template files themselves, so every report comes out in the same structure and format.
• Investment theses describe how your firm invests: the sectors, stages, geographies, and criteria you care about. Ventos uses your theses when it analyzes companies and researches opportunities for your firm, so its assessments reflect your strategy rather than a generic one.

Important boundaries

• A built-in skill can’t be overridden. If you create a personal or organization skill with the same name as a built-in one, the built-in still wins, and the Skills page marks yours as overridden.
• Between your own skills, a personal skill takes precedence over an organization skill of the same name.
• Organization skills are organization-wide. Editing one changes it for everyone.
• Deleting a skill removes it and all its files, and Ventos stops using it immediately.
• Skills are instructions, not code — they can’t run arbitrary scripts.

Next steps

• Self-learning — how Ventos improves its own skills over time
• Memory — durable facts, the other thing you teach Ventos once
• Scheduled tasks — run a skill on a schedule