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Skills Overview

Skills are reusable Companion prompts that make Companion behave like a specialist for a recurring task. A Skill can include prompt instructions, optional tools, and optional entity contexts. For example, a Skill might help analyze decisions from a meeting, draft a follow-up email, prepare a pre-call brief, or track action items from a transcript.

Harmony has two main kinds of Skills. Workspace-level Skills are called Protocols and are created by admins under Settings -> Protocols. They are available to every member of the workspace. Personal Skills are created by individual users in their own Companion environment and are available only to the person who created them.

Marketplace Skills are reusable Companion prompts published by Harmony or community authors. You can browse them, read their prompts, download their bundles, or copy their instructions into your own Companion workflow.

Find Skills in the Marketplace​

To browse Marketplace Skills, open Companion from the sidebar, go to Marketplace, and select the Skills tab. You can also use Discover to view curated collections that may include Skills, Agents, connectors, and other featured items.

Opening a Skill card takes you to its detail page. The detail page shows the Skill prompt rendered as Markdown, which is the actual text you can reuse. It may also include screenshots, connector expectations, version information, author details, category metadata, and a download button.

Use a Marketplace Skill​

Marketplace Skills do not have an in-app Install button today. The prompt is still usable, but you need to copy or download it manually.

The simplest approach is to open the Skill detail page, copy the prompt, and paste it into a new Companion thread. Companion will follow the prompt for that thread.

If you want to keep the Skill for reference or share it outside Harmony, use the Download button to download the bundle. The bundle includes the manifest, prompt, and any related assets.

If the Skill should be available to everyone in the workspace, copy the prompt into a new Protocol under Settings -> Protocols. This turns the Marketplace prompt into a workspace-level Skill that members can summon from Companion. When the per-workspace Skills install flow ships, Harmony is expected to add a direct install action for this workflow.

Workspace Protocols​

Protocols are admin-defined Skills that belong to the workspace. Once a Protocol is created, it is available to every workspace member from Companion. Protocols are best for shared workflows where consistent instructions matter, such as customer follow-up formatting, sales discovery review, support escalation summaries, or meeting review standards.

Creating a Protocol requires the skills:create:all permission, which belongs to the Admin role by default. See Creating custom Protocols for the full creation flow.

Common Skill use cases​

Skills are most useful when a prompt is repeated often enough that it should not be rewritten each time. An action item tracker can scan a transcript for commitments and turn them into a clean task summary. A follow-up email generator can draft a professional message based on a meeting. A decision log analyzer can extract the final decisions from a conversation. A pre-call brief can collect account, contact, and recent-conversation context before an upcoming meeting.

The best Skills are specific enough to produce consistent output but flexible enough to work across similar situations.

For shared workspace Skills, see Creating custom Protocols. For Marketplace browsing, see Marketplace overview. To understand how Agents differ from Skills, see Understanding Agents.