# Agent Skills

Install the Senso skills so your agent can run the Verification Loop, keep your team's shared context, and work with your knowledge base.

## What are agent skills?

Skills are instructions your agent loads to use the Senso CLI. You say what you want in plain words; your agent runs the commands, and stops for the decisions only you can make.

New to Senso? [Connect Your Agent](https://docs.senso.ai/docs/connect-your-agent) installs the CLI and the skills and signs you in, from one prompt.

## Before you install

**Use an agent that can run terminal commands**, such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI and Cline are supported too. You also need the [Senso CLI](https://docs.senso.ai/docs/senso-cli), installed and signed in.

## Install the skills

```bash
senso setup
```

`senso setup` installs all nine skills globally, for every supported agent on your machine, and removes retired ones. They are one set: they hand work to each other by name, so a flow stops at the first skill that is missing. Run it again at any time; it installs only what is missing or out of date.

- `--local` installs into the current project instead, for example `.claude/skills/` for Claude Code, where the skills can be committed with your code.
- `--agent claude`, `cursor`, `codex`, `copilot`, `gemini` or `cline` installs for one agent only.

`senso setup` needs Senso CLI 0.18.1 or later. Check with `senso --version`, and run `senso update` if yours is older.

**Start a fresh agent session after installing.** Agents load skills when a session starts.

## The skills

Three skills are where you start. The rest are steps they use, and you can also call on them directly.

| Skill | What it does | Start it by saying |
|-------|--------------|--------------------|
| `quickstart` | Says what Senso is, and takes you to the Verification Loop or Shared Context. | "Get me started with Senso." |
| `verification-loop` | Finds an AI question in your industry where a competitor is named and you are not, answers it from your documents, and publishes a checked page. See [Verification Loop](https://docs.senso.ai/docs/use-cases/verification-loop). | "Let's go through the Verification Loop." |
| `shared-context` | Settles the questions your team's agents could not answer, and saves decisions so the next person starts from them. See [Shared Context](https://docs.senso.ai/docs/shared-context). | "Let's go through Shared Context." |
| `verification-loop-setup` | One-time setup for the loop: your material, your industry, your brand name, and the shape and voice of your pages. | Runs on its own the first time, or "Set my industry." |
| `shared-context-setup` | Adds a first document when your knowledge base is empty. | Runs on its own the first time. |
| `context-layer` | Saves, finds, organizes and hands off documents, and imports your website. | "Save this to Senso." "What did we decide about pricing?" |
| `gap-report` | Shows what your knowledge base could not answer or back up, and records what was done about it. | "What are our gaps?" |
| `generate-verify` | Drafts content from your knowledge base, and checks each claim against it. | "Draft an article for this question." "Is this accurate?" |
| `publish` | Publishes an approved draft where AI models can cite it, and takes it down again. | "Publish this." "Unpublish it." |

## Manage installed skills

| Command | What it does |
|---------|--------------|
| `senso skills list` | List the skills installed in this project. Add `--global` for global ones. |
| `senso skills list-available` | List the skills you can install. |
| `senso skills remove <name>` | Remove a skill. Add `--global` to remove a global install. |

To update the skills, run `senso setup` again.

## Next steps

- [Connect Your Agent](https://docs.senso.ai/docs/connect-your-agent) — install everything and sign in, from one prompt
- [Verification Loop](https://docs.senso.ai/docs/use-cases/verification-loop) — what the loop does, step by step
- [Shared Context](https://docs.senso.ai/docs/shared-context) — how your team builds on each other's work
- [CLI Reference](https://docs.senso.ai/docs/cli-reference) — every command your agent can run