Add a skill
Use Add skill in the agent’s settings to give an agent a skill. The panel filters by kind:Connectors for both API and MCP connectors, and Skills for Markdown skill bundles together with the built-in skills the runtime ships with (marked with a Powered by Xpander badge).
For the full catalog of skills you can add within xpander, see the skills catalog.
Skill visibility
Manage access on a skill offers Private, Group (named people and groups) and Org-wide. The
restricted and agent scopes are set when a skill is published from a repository with xpander.yaml; Xpander Chat shows such a skill to the agents on its allowlist and refuses to attach it to any other.
As a builder you see the org catalog plus the skills scoped to agents you manage. A skill scoped to agents you do not manage stays out of your catalog. Attaching a skill to an agent that is not on its allowlist is refused, so add the agent under Manage access first, or ask the skill’s creator or an org admin to do it.
Who may change a scope, how the runtime enforces it, and which audit events it writes are on Skill visibility. To publish skills from a repository with their scope set in xpander.yaml, see Publish Skills.