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Skills

Get Started​

Agent skills are a way to elevate your workflow and get more out of the tool. You can create skills as simple as retrieving stock information, as shown below:

---
name: get-stock-info
description: Get stock information for a given ticker symbol from Yahoo Finance.
---

This skill retrieves the following information about a stock:

*   Stock Price & Trading Info
*   Company Information
*   Financial Metrics
*   Earnings & Revenue

Execute the following tool to get the stock information for a symbol:

````mcp
yahoo-finance-mcp.get_stock_info(ticker=<string>, period='1mo', interval='1d')

Skills Template​

We follow the standard skill template with additional capabilities to help with tool calls, as shown above. This particular skill requires the yahoo-mcp-server to be configured when a user asks for stock information for AAPL.

Skills can also follow a given-when-then format. In the UI, you can type a prompt like this:

alt text

This will auto-generate a formatted skill with an mcp block and starter content that you can extend to fit your style.

---
name: list-issues
description: When the user asks to list issues, this skill retrieves a list of top 5 tasks from the Linear workspace.
---

Call Linear MCP.list_issues(limit=5)

```mcp
linear.list_issues(limit=5)
```

Wrap​

Here is an example of a more complex skill that compares invoices based on my personal documents and a configured MCP server, and then creates a discrepancy report.

---
name: invoice-discrepancy-report
description: When the user asks to compare invoices and identify billing discrepancies, this skill gathers invoice, order, and receipt data, performs a comparison, reports findings, and creates a Linear ticket for follow-up.
---

**Skill Instructions:**

**Data Extraction**: Extract relevant information from the following documents:
    * Purchase Order(s)
    * Goods Receipt Notes (if available)
    * Supplier Invoice(s)
Ensure to include URLs or IDs for all referenced items.

**Data Comparison**: Compare the extracted data across all three sources: supplier invoice, goods receipt notes and purchase order.

**Buyer Details Inclusion:** Include buyer details in the report.

**Discrepancy Identification**: Identify any discrepancies between invoices regarding pricing, quantities or other relevant fields.

**Report Generation**: If discrepancies are found:
    * Generate a structured report summarizing each discrepancy with supporting evidence (invoice URLs/IDs).

**Issue Creation:** Execute the following command to create an issue:

```mcp
linear.save_issue(title='Billing Discrepancy - Supplier', description='Discrepancies found in invoices comparing goods and purchase receipts.', team=Billing, assignee=me)
```

**Comprehensive Coverage**: Ensure all three invoices (supplier, goods, purchase) are included within the report.

Next steps​

It is also possible to manage skills using your terminal, once you have studio desktop installed ,you can do the following follow to add a skill:

EDITOR=nano slp skill add $EDITOR

Here I have set nano as my editor , that will open a skill editor in the terminal for writing and saving the skill.

Or inline:

slp skill add "when user requests current stock price, use yahoo mcp to get the stock info and return current price for the given symbol"

Summary​

Agent skills are the blueprint of your project and define how you want to perform tasks, extract information, or create a foundational AI app that you can extend with APIs to automate your workflows.