# Skills and knowledge

> Skills and knowledge in an Agent host agent are plain text that goes into its prompt: how to write them and what not to put in.

Source: https://agenthost.geenius.io/docs/skills-and-knowledge/

**Skills** are named instructions, for example how to summarise or how to label. **Knowledge** is named text the agent can rely on, such as opening hours or a price list.

Both go into the agent's prompt, so keep them short and true. Do not put secrets in either: they are text the model reads. Connector secrets have their own place; see [connectors](/docs/connectors/).

An agent defined in Prompt Verse brings its skills and knowledge with it. See [Prompt Verse](/docs/prompt-verse/).