Agent Skills

Agent skills are reusable capabilities exposed to AI agents, assistants, or automation workflows. A skill packages intent, input/output contract, execution logic, and documentation so agents can discover and call it safely.

Skill Design

Each skill should define:

• purpose and boundaries;
• input schema;
• output schema;
• failure modes;
• authorization and data access requirements;
• telemetry and audit expectations;
• examples and tests.

ConnectSoft Guidance

• Keep skills small and composable.
• Prefer typed contracts over unstructured text.
• Validate all inputs before invoking side effects.
• Emit telemetry for execution time, failures, and downstream calls.
• Do not expose privileged operations without explicit authorization checks.

Template Responsibilities

BaseTemplate should document the skill registration and discovery mechanism. Bot and AI-specific Layer 3 templates should document channel-specific skill exposure, domain skill catalogs, and generated examples.