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url: /ai/ai-skills.md
description: >-
  Create, import or paste AI skills in RootWright LMS Pro: reusable instructions
  like a house style, teaching method or marking rubric that the AI uses on
  courses.
---

# How to use AI skills in RootWright LMS

An AI skill is a set of instructions you write once, such as a house style, a teaching method or a marking rubric. In RootWright LMS Pro you pick skills whenever the AI builds, extends or reviews a course. Manage them under **Teaching → AI skills**.

::: pro
AI skills are part of RootWright LMS Pro and need an AI provider. See [Connect your AI provider](/ai/connect-ai-provider).
:::

![The AI skills list with three course-building skills](/images/ai/ai-skills-01-list.jpg)

*Teaching → AI skills. Each skill shows its description, its type, whether it is **Private**, and who wrote it.*

## Add a skill

Use one of the three buttons at the top of the screen:

* **New skill** writes a skill from scratch.
* **Import a file** uploads a Claude `SKILL.md` file, or a skill `.zip`. Only the `SKILL.md` inside a zip is used.
* **Paste a SKILL.md** pastes the contents of a `SKILL.md` file.

## Manage skills

* **Search skills** filters the list.
* Click a skill, or the arrow on its row, to open it.
* The trash icon deletes a skill.

## Use a skill

Pick skills in the **Style** section of [Generate a course with AI](/courses/generate-with-ai), or in **AI settings** on a course's **AI audit** and **AI chat** tabs. **Manage skills** in those places opens this screen.

## Related

* [Generate a course with AI](/courses/generate-with-ai)
* [AI audit and AI chat](/ai/ai-audit-and-chat)