Skills in chat
The assistant draws on skills when you talk to it — searching your contacts, reading a thread, drafting a note. Type/skills in chat to see what is available and switch skills on or off from there. A skill that needs a connected account or an API key asks for it when you switch it on.
Skills as scouts
A scout is a skill that Orbis runs for you on a schedule instead of waiting to be asked. Scout skills come from Orbis’s catalog and are switched on from the Scouts page, where each one shows what it watches, how often it runs and what it found.Skills control what Orbis can do. In chat, you decide what it does turn by turn; as a scout, the skill’s own instructions decide, within a spending limit and a fixed, narrow set of tools that never send or draft anything.