Agent Skills are guided workflows for common creative tasks, from building a full ad campaign to resizing a single image. Trigger a skill by typing / in the Agent composer, and Agent follows that skill's workflow while you steer the details. You can also turn a process you've worked out in a chat into a custom skill, so you or your team can run it again on new inputs without re-prompting.

Skills work anywhere you talk to Agent: on the Agent home page or inside an active chat. If you're new to Agent, Creating with Runway Agent covers the basics of prompting and generating.

Available Skills

Agent's skills menu currently includes:

• Ad Campaign — build a campaign, from concept to finished video and image assets for all platforms
• Commercial — produce a commercial with a hook, proof and call to action
• Mood Board — generate a set of images to shape the look of your project
• Motion Graphic — animate text, charts and infographics into a video
• Resize Image — reframe an image to a new aspect ratio
• Social Thumbnail — design an engaging social thumbnail with a headline and subtext
• UGC Video — create an influencer video where a person talks to the camera in a casual, user-generated-content style
• Workflow — create, edit and run node-based Workflows
• New Skill — create and teach Agent a task so you can reuse it in future chats (see Creating a Custom Skill)

Using a Skill

1. Navigate to Agent
2. Type / in the composer, then select a skill by name. The skill appears inline in your message
3. Add any details you'd like alongside the skill, then send your message

You can also open the full skills menu by selecting the skills icon next to the + in the composer, or start from a suggested skill in the chips below the composer on the Agent home page.

A skill and a regular prompt can share the same message. For example, typing / and selecting Motion Graphic, then adding "let's plan one for my YouTube channel" starts the Motion Graphic workflow with your goal already in context. Once sent, the chat labels your message with the skill that was triggered, so you always know which workflow Agent is following.

How Skills Guide a Session

Each skill breaks its task into steps and checks in with you along the way. Some skills begin with exploration before producing final assets. Ad Campaign, for example, starts by generating a mood board of different visual directions. Pick the direction you like, or ask for another round, and Agent then generates the campaign's individual assets in that style.

Skills are starting points, not scripts. You can redirect Agent, change formats or ask for variations at any step, the same way you would in any Agent conversation.

Creating a Custom Skill

A custom skill saves a process you've worked out so Agent can run it again on new inputs. Instead of rebuilding the same chat each time (describe the brand, approve the look, generate every format), you trigger the skill, answer its questions and get the same kind of result. Skills also handle a variable number of outputs: a localization skill can ask which cities you need and produce one version for each, whether that's three or 30. Once created, a custom skill works just like a Runway-authored one, and you can share it with your workspace so everyone runs the same process.

Building a Skill From a Chat

You can write a skill from scratch, but the quickest route is to let a finished chat do the drafting.

1. Work through the task in a regular Agent chat until the result is what you want
2. In the same chat, ask Agent to turn the process into a skill. For example: "I like how we got to these localized ads. Turn the process we followed into a skill I can run again for new cities, and have it ask me for the inputs it needs each time."
3. Review the instructions Agent writes back. They should say what to ask for at the start and what to produce at the end (see What to Put in the Instructions below)
4. Add the skill from the skills menu using those instructions, following the steps in the next section

Where to Add Your Skill

1. Open the skills menu from the composer
2. Hover over Create your own skill and select Write
3. Give your skill a Name and a short Description
4. Add Instructions describing the workflow Agent should follow, up to 5,000 characters
5. Under Sharing, choose Private to keep the skill to yourself or Share with workspace to make it available to everyone in your workspace
6. Select Create

Once created, trigger your skill the same way as any other: type / and select it by name. Shared skills are available to everyone in your workspace the same way.

What to Put in the Instructions

Instructions work best when they tell Agent what to collect before it starts and what to hand back when it's done. Describe the steps in order, name the output you expect and include any style guidance Agent should apply every time. A localization skill, for example, might say:

• Inputs — ask the user for a finished ad image, a list of cities and a caption for each city
• Steps — for each city, adapt the setting, light and on-screen text to match the location, then generate a 9:16 version for social and a 5-second clip
• Checkpoint — share the adapted images for approval before generating any video
• Output — one image and one clip per city

The checkpoint is worth keeping in any skill that generates video: you spend video credits only on versions you've already signed off on.

Example Custom Skills

A few skills that start out as ordinary chats:

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