Kimi Agent Skills, Evolve the Way Your AI Work

Turn your workflows, processes, and standards into reusable agent skills. Kimi applies them automatically whenever a similar task comes up, so you never have to repeat yourself. Pick from hundreds of ready-made skills in the Skill Store, or build your own by uploading a document or describing what you need.

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Kimi Agent Skills, Evolve the Way Your AI Work

What are AI agent skills?

	Regular prompts	Agent Skills
Scope	Describe what to do for a single task	Define how to approach a type of task
What they contain	Primarily written instructions	Can include steps, domain knowledge, templates, references, and optional scripts or tools
How to use them	Re-enter or adjust instructions for each task	Save them for reuse, invoke them with “/”, or let Kimi select a relevant skill
Output standards	Depend on the instructions in the current prompt	Follow the process and standards defined in the skill
How to update them	Revise the prompt for the current task	Update the AI skill so future tasks use the revised approach

Choose from hundreds of ready-made AI skills

Kimi's Skill Store includes official skills across six areas of work. Add a skill to your library and use it in your next task.

Business and finance

Industry reports, securities analysis, market research, and statistical testing.

Office productivity

Business emails, standard operating procedures, meeting notes, and planning.

Creative work

Copywriting, image creation, and rewriting to match a specific style or tone.

Academic research

Literature reviews, in-depth research, and paper formatting.

Marketing and growth

SEO audits, landing page copy, and search result optimization.

Product and engineering

Web scraping, product requirements documents, and coding assistance.

Kimi Skill Store categories for productivity, finance, creative, academic, marketing and engineering agent skills

Build skills from documents or conversation

Start with a document

Upload a Word, Excel, PDF, or PowerPoint file. Kimi extracts its templates, processes, and standards to create a skill you can reuse.

Describe what you need

Tell Kimi what you want the skill to do. Kimi asks questions to clarify the details, then creates a skill for your workflow.

Create a reusable agent skill from Word, PowerPoint or PDF documents with Kimi

Create custom skills in Kimi by describing your workflow in a conversation with skill-creator

Add and refine skills as your work changes

Install open-source or existing local skills

Share the URL of an open source skill to install it in Kimi. In the Kimi Work desktop app, you can also upload local .zip or .md skill files to use your preferred skills.

Update skills through conversation

Tell Kimi which steps, templates, or standards to change. You can revise a skill without writing code or opening an editor.

Create skills with MyKimi self-growth

Enable self-growth in MyKimi to allow Kimi to learn your preferences and work habits, then create skills when it identifies a useful workflow to save.

Install an open-source agent skill in Kimi by pasting a GitHub repository URL into the chat

Edit and refine Kimi agent skills through conversation, with SKILL.md version history for V1 and V2

MyKimi self-growth settings for learning work preferences and creating reusable AI agent skills automatically

How to create and use skills in Kimi

Add or create a skill

Choose a skill from the Skill Store, upload a document, or describe what you need. You can also share a GitHub skill URL to install it. In the Kimi Work desktop app, you can upload skill files.

Select a skill and describe your task

Type “/” in the chat box to select a skill, and describe your task. You can use multiple skills or use plugins for one task at the same time.

Review and refine the result

Kimi will follow the skill's guidance to complete the task. Review the output when it is ready, then ask Kimi to make any changes you need.

Add ready-made agent skills from the Kimi Skill Store, including research, writing and presentation skills

FAQ

AI skills are reusable sets of instructions, workflows, and knowledge. They can include templates, formatting requirements, and your preferences. Save these in a skill, then use it for similar tasks so Kimi can follow the same approach without you repeating the setup. You can reuse skills yourself or share them with your team.

A prompt tells Kimi what to do in the current task. Custom instructions typically set general preferences, such as tone or response style. A skill defines how to handle a particular type of task, with its own steps, reference materials, and output standards. Skills stay in your library, can be selected with /, and can be used together.

Add a skill from the Skill Store to your library, then type / in the chat box to select it and describe your task. If you do not choose a skill, Kimi can find and use a relevant one based on the task.

Upload a Word, Excel, PDF, or PowerPoint document, or describe what you want in a conversation with Kimi. Kimi uses the document or your instructions to generate a skill. Once it appears in your library, you can use it immediately.

You can upload up to 3 files at a time, with a maximum size of 100 MB per file. Supported formats are .docx, .xlsx, .pdf, and .pptx. You can also upload screenshots of these documents.

You can create and use skills on the web, in the Kimi mobile app, and in the Kimi Work desktop app. Kimi Work also supports installing local skill files. Kimi skills use the open SKILL.md format, so you can download them for use in Kimi Code and other development tools that support the format.

Yes. Share the URL of an open source skill to install it in Kimi. In the Kimi Work desktop app, you can also upload a skill as a .zip or .md file. The Skill Store offers hundreds of official skills you can add to your library.

Yes. Tell Kimi what you want to change and work through the revisions in conversation. You do not need to write code or use an editor.

MCP connects Kimi to external tools and data sources, such as databases, internal systems, and third-party services. Skills define the process and standards Kimi follows when working with those tools and data. You can use both together: MCP provides access to a data source, and a skill specifies how to analyze the data and present the results.

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