Skills
What Operant learns from work that repeats — and what makes the second thousand runs cheaper than the first.
A skill is not a model and not a fine-tune. It is a compact description of how a particular recurring job is best served, derived from watching that job actually run.
What a skill contains
- A tighter prompt. The general-purpose system prompt carries instructions this task never needs. The skill keeps what fired.
- A smaller tool surface. Tool definitions are sent on every call and priced on every call. Most of them are never selected for a given workload.
- A model tier that fits. Established by observation, not assumption — the cheapest tier that held its accuracy on this task.
Where skills come from
Cortex builds them, from workloads it has seen recur. That requires storing the content of those workloads; the Privacy Policy describes exactly what is kept and when it starts.
Whose they are
Yours, scoped to your organisation. A skill learned from your traffic is never used to serve another customer, and no model offered to anyone else is trained on your content. Tenant isolation is enforced by the database, not by application code — Security has the detail.