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Skills are saved instruction sets that shape how the AI chat builds your apps. They activate when needed so the AI can follow your rules and best practices automatically across your workspace. Workspace skills apply to every app in the workspace for anyone who can work in that workspace. This helps you keep design patterns, copy rules, and data practices consistent, no matter which app you are building.
Adding skills to your workspace
You can use skills to give the AI specialized abilities for different kinds of work, such as:
  • Design skill: Help the AI think like a designer by applying layout logic, spacing rules, hierarchy, and component best practices as it builds your UI.
  • Copy skill: Help the AI focus on clear headlines, product descriptions, landing pages, and in-app text that match your tone and goals.
  • Data skill: Help the AI behave like an analyst, interpret metrics, spot patterns, and reason about decisions using your structured data.
The AI chat decides when to use a skill based on what you type and the skill’s description and instructions. The AI can invoke relevant skills automatically, but it usually works best if you mention the skill or its purpose directly in your prompt, such as “Apply our accessibility skill to this flow” or “Use our brand-guidelines skill for this page.”
You need a Builder plan or higher to add skills to your workspace.

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Adding a workspace skill

You can create skills from scratch or start from built-in presets.
Each workspace can have up to 100 skills. If you reach this limit, you must delete an existing skill before adding a new one.
Adding a skill to your workspace
To add a workspace skill:
  1. Click your profile icon at the top-right of Base44.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Under Workspace, click Skills.
  4. Click Add skill.
  5. In the Add skill or start from scratch window, choose how you want to start:
    • Start from scratch: Create a completely custom skill.
    • Preset skill: Under Presets, click Add on a template.
  6. In the Skill name field, enter a short, recognizable name, such as brand-guidelines or checkout-copy-style.
  7. In the Description field, describe when the AI should use this skill. For example, explain which pages or tasks it applies to, or which team or brand it belongs to.
  8. In the Instructions field, add the step-by-step rules the AI should follow when the skill activates. Treat this like training a new team member, with clear headings, examples, and priorities.
  9. (Optional) Click Refine & review to have the AI refine and adjust the skill description and instructions while keeping your intent.
  10. In the Review your skill window, compare the refined version with your original text:
    • Click Back to original if you prefer your original version.
    • Click Save skill to save the refined version, or Cancel to close the review window without saving changes.
  11. Click Add skill to add the skill to your workspace.

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Turning a workspace skill on or off

You can temporarily disable a skill without deleting it. When a skill is off, the AI ignores its rules during conversations. To turn a workspace skill on or off:
  1. Click your profile icon at the top-right of Base44.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Under Workspace, click Skills.
  4. Click the toggle on the relevant skill to enable or disable that skill.

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Editing or deleting a workspace skill

Update a skill when your guidelines change, or delete it if you no longer need it.
Editing a skill in a workspace
To edit or delete a workspace skill:
  1. Click your profile icon at the top-right of Base44.
  2. Click Settings.
  3. Under Workspace, click Skills.
  4. Next to the relevant skill, click the More actions icon.
  5. Choose what you want to do:
    • Edit Skill: Open the skill editor to make changes. You can update the Skill name, Description, or Instructions, and optionally click Refine & review again to have the AI improve your updates before you save.
    • Delete Skill: Remove the skill from your workspace.

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FAQs

Click a question below to learn more about workspace skills.
The AI decides whether to use a skill based on your prompt and the skill’s description and instructions. It can invoke relevant skills automatically when they match what you are trying to do.For best results, mention the skill or its purpose directly in your prompt, such as “Apply our accessibility skill to this form.”
Yes. Workspace skills are available to the AI chat in every app in that workspace for anyone who can work in that workspace.
Workspace skills define shared rules and best practices for how the AI builds apps in a specific workspace.MCP connections are configured once per account and let the AI chat use external tools and live data across all the apps and workspaces your account can access.Learn how to add MCP connections.
When you delete a skill, the AI chat no longer uses its rules in any app in that workspace. You need to recreate the skill if you want to restore those guidelines in the future.