> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.quiva.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Skills > What a skill is, the built-in skills Abbie ships with, and how to browse and enable them. A skill is a bundle of instructions Abbie pulls in when it's relevant: what to do, how to do it, and which tools she's allowed to use while doing it. Skills are how Abbie's capabilities stay organised rather than everything being crammed into one instruction she reads for every single message. ## How a skill activates A skill can switch on in two ways: * **By matching what you said**: a skill can be written to trigger on certain keywords or phrasing, so it activates automatically the moment it's relevant. * **By Abbie finding it herself**: she can also search her own catalogue of skills mid-conversation and pull one in when she judges it useful, even if nothing you typed matched a keyword directly. ## Built-in skills Abbie ships with a set of built-in skills covering the everyday work: platform operations, drafting and workflows, memory, knowledge lookup, and keeping track of her own backlog. You can turn any built-in skill off, and Abbie stops reaching for it entirely. One skill is always on and can't be turned off, because it's what lets her find all the others in the first place. ## Managing skills Open the **Skills** tab in [Abbie's settings](/abbie/configuring/settings-overview) to see every built-in and custom skill on your account, with a simple on/off toggle for each. Selecting a skill shows its full detail: its description, what triggers it, which tools it grants, and — for a skill that ships its own code — the script approval controls covered in [Running a skill's scripts](/abbie/teaching/running-skill-scripts). The Skills settings tab listing built-in skills such as Workspace, Records, Document templating, Meetings, Assistants and workflows, and Memory, each with an on/off toggle ## Beyond your own list The Skills tab has two more areas besides your own list: * **Browse**: a catalogue of skills published by trusted GitHub source repos, installable in one click. See [Browsing skills](/abbie/teaching/browsing-skills). * **Suggested**: drafts Abbie has written herself after you've asked her to turn a conversation into a skill, waiting for your review. See [Abbie drafting a skill](/abbie/teaching/abbie-drafting-skills). Write your own skill, or bring one in from elsewhere. Install a skill straight from a trusted GitHub source. Ask her to turn a conversation into a skill of its own. The sandbox and approvals behind a skill's own code. The standing facts Abbie carries between conversations.