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Agent Skills & Tool Capabilities
Understand how skills empower agents with software tools, how to install them, and how RBAC grants are enforced.
4 min read10,400 viewsUpdated 2026-09-11
What are skills?
While foundation models provide reasoning and linguistic fluency, Skills grant agents the authority to interact with production software, APIs, and databases.
| Category | Example Skills | Operational Capability |
|---|---|---|
| Data & Relational | MySQL / MariaDB Database | Plain language SQL querying with guarded read/write safety |
| Productivity & Docs | Google Sheets, Drive, PDF OCR | Reading live spreadsheets, indexing manuals, and exporting CSVs |
| E-Commerce & ERP | ikas, Business Central | Checking live SKU stock levels, fetching orders, creating RMAs |
| Messaging & Telecom | NetGSM SMS, WhatsApp Business | Dispatching transactional SMS notifications and customer updates |
Skills are designed as pure execution toolkits. No skill contains independent daemon loops or background timers; all recurring schedules are naturally coordinated through the central Task Manager.
Installing skills & granting RBAC access
Botonom enforces a zero-trust deny-by-default model:
- Open Skills from the dashboard navigation
- Browse the Skill Marketplace and click Install on your chosen tool
- Securely provide required API tokens, OAuth credentials, or database host configs
- Navigate to Employees, open the target agent's profile, and navigate to Skills
- Toggle the capability grant switch to Enabled for that agent
Marketplace → Install & Authenticate → Agent Detail → Grant Access (RBAC) ✓
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