Skills
Skills are specialized abilities your agent has. Think of them as expertise areas — just like you’d hire a specialist for a specific task, your agent has skills for different types of work.Built-in Skills
Every agent comes with these abilities out of the box:| Skill | What It Does |
|---|---|
| Read, create, merge, split, and fill PDF files | |
| Spreadsheets | Create and edit Excel files, analyze data |
| Code Execution | Run Python, Node.js, and shell scripts |
| Web Research | Search the web and compile research reports |
| Document Parsing | Extract text from PDFs, images, Word docs |
| Image Generation | Create images from text descriptions |
| Speech & Audio | Transcribe audio, generate speech |
How to Use
Just ask your agent in natural language:- “Create a PDF report from this data”
- “Merge these three PDFs into one”
- “Analyze this spreadsheet and create a chart”
- “Research the latest trends in AI and write a summary”
Adding New Skills
Your agent can learn new specialized skills over time. New skills can be added by your team to teach the agent company-specific workflows, templates, or processes.Skills are one of the key advantages of Vecbase agents over simple chatbots. While a chatbot can only chat, your agent can actually do things — create files, process data, interact with services, and complete real tasks.