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Get one skill

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

A Recursion API key, created in the console under API keys.

Path Parameters

skill_id
string<uuid>
required

Skill id (UUID) as returned by createSkill or listSkills.

Response

A reusable procedure an agent loads when it judges the procedure relevant. Its name and description are disclosed in every turn; the instructions enter the conversation only when the agent activates it. Updating a skill mints a new immutable SkillVersion.

A reusable procedure an agent loads when it judges the procedure relevant. Its name and description are disclosed in every turn; the instructions enter the conversation only when the agent activates it. Updating a skill mints a new immutable SkillVersion.

created_at
string<date-time>
required

Server-assigned RFC 3339 timestamp of when the skill was created.

description
string
required

When to use this skill. Disclosed to the model in every turn, so it is the whole routing signal: write it as the condition under which the skill applies.

name
string
required

The skill's addressable name, lowercase with single hyphens, e.g. cut-release. This is what an agent passes to the activation tool.

organization_id
string
required

Organization that owns the skill. Server-assigned from the caller's credentials; a value sent in a request body is ignored.

skill_id
string
required

Server-assigned id of the skill, used in the skill and skill-version routes.

source
string
required

Where the skill came from: platform, organization, or repository. Decides which skill wins a name collision, most specific first.

updated_at
string<date-time>
required

Server-assigned RFC 3339 timestamp of the most recent update to the skill.

display_title
string

Human-readable title shown wherever skills are listed. Defaults to the name.

latest_instruction_chars
integer<int64>

Length in characters of the newest version's instructions, the body disclosed to the model when it activates the skill. Zero for a skill with no version yet. Instructions are truncated at 64000 characters when a session assembles them.

latest_skill_version_id
string

Server-maintained id of the newest version of this skill; agents that attach it without pinning a version use this one.

latest_version_number
integer<int64>

How many versions this skill has, which is also the number of the newest one, since versions are numbered from 1 in creation order. Zero for a skill with no version yet.

metadata
object

Caller-owned key/value data stored with the skill and returned unchanged.

skill_group_id
string

Catalog group this skill is filed under, if any. Grouping is for browsing and for attaching a set of skills to an agent in one entry; it is never disclosed to the model and does not scope the skill's name.