Teach once. Reusable context.
Skills are reusable instructions for your agents — playbooks, formats and behaviors. Save knowledge such as architecture, conventions, decisions and gotchas so future sessions can use it when appropriate.
Good morning. Three things need you.
Revenue
EMEA bookings 8% ahead; two enterprise deals slipped to Q1.
Operations
Network incident in São Paulo resolved in 22 min; no SLA breach.
Decision
Approve the APAC data-residency deployment by Friday.
Skills
Write a reusable playbook that an agent can follow when the skill is enabled.
Knowledge
Architecture, conventions, decisions and gotchas you can save for future sessions.
Agents write back
Save useful findings as knowledge for future chats.
Shared with your team
Organization skills reach every teammate's desktop live.
Skills & Knowledge
Skills: how to do the work
A skill is a set of instructions an agent follows — a house style, a review checklist or a release playbook. Enable it for the sessions that need it.
- Playbooks, formats and behaviors
- Works with any model
- Skills made in the desktop app sync to the web
- Organization skills reach every teammate
Good morning. Three things need you.
Revenue
EMEA bookings 8% ahead; two enterprise deals slipped to Q1.
Operations
Network incident in São Paulo resolved in 22 min; no SLA breach.
Decision
Approve the APAC data-residency deployment by Friday.
Skills & Knowledge
Knowledge: what is true about your work
Knowledge is what your agents should never have to rediscover — how your system is built, the conventions you follow, past decisions and known traps.
- Save useful facts for future sessions
- Architecture, conventions and decisions
- Add knowledge when it helps future work
Save useful facts for future sessions
Architecture, conventions and decisions
Add knowledge when it helps future work
Skills & Knowledge, step by step.
- 01
Write
Add a skill or a knowledge entry in plain words.
- 02
Share
Keep it to yourself or share it with your organization.
- 03
Use
Enable the skills and knowledge relevant to the session.
- 04
Improve
Save useful findings as knowledge for future chats.
Under the hood.
Skills
Reusable instructions: playbooks, formats, behaviors
Knowledge
Architecture, conventions, decisions, gotchas
Sharing
Personal or organization-wide
Models
Works with any model
What teams build with it.
House style
Every draft and every pull request follows the same rules, whoever asked.
Faster onboarding
New teammates and new agents start from what the team already knows.
No repeat mistakes
Record a gotcha once and agents stop falling into it.
Good questions.
What is the difference between a skill and knowledge?
A skill tells an agent how to do something. Knowledge tells it what is true about your work.
How do I get started with Skills & Knowledge?
Start a Cana chat, then open Skills & Knowledge from the Platform area when it fits the work you need to do.
How do I control what an agent can do?
Choose the permission level that fits the task: Ask, Accept Edits, Research and Plan, or Bypass All.
Can I connect tools to this work?
Cana can use connected apps and remote MCP servers when you have connected and allowed those tools.
Where can I learn more?
Return to the Platform overview to explore related capabilities and use cases.
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