## Skill

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/product/capabilities/build-apps/references/types/agentic/skill

> Base class for skills in Atlan. A skill is a reusable, versionable unit of capability that can be consumed by agents.

**Kind:** Concrete · **API version:** 1.3 · **Inherits from:** Referenceable → Asset → Catalog → Agentic · **Model path:** Referenceable/Asset/Catalog/Agentic · **Props:** 217 (208 inherited) · **Relationships:** 36

### Minimal payload

Minimum fields to identify or reference an existing asset:

```json
{
 "typeName": "Skill",
 "attributes": {
 "qualifiedName": "",
 "name": ""
 }
}
```

### Own properties

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `slug` | string | No | URL-safe unique identifier for this skill (for example, my-sql-skill). |
| `type` | string | No | Origin type of this skill — system-provided, context repository output, custom user/agent created, or connector-synced f |
| `status` | string | No | Lifecycle status of this skill version (draft or published). |
| `artifactPaths` | Array<string> | No | Denormalized list of file paths of the SkillArtifact entities belonging to this skill version. |
| `artifactFileQualifiedNames` | Array<string> | No | Denormalized list of qualifiedNames of the SkillArtifact entities belonging to this skill version. |
| `isDormant` | boolean | No | Health signal — true when the skill was discovered with a missing, empty, or insufficiently descriptive description and |
| `sourcePath` | string | No | Source-system path the skill was synced from (for example, the Databricks workspace SKILL.md path). |
| `scope` | string | No | Scope under which the skill was discovered, as a keyword string (for example, user or workspace). |
| `checksum` | string | No | SHA-256 hex digest of the source SKILL.md content (UTF-8), used for change detection across crawls. |

### Own relationships

| Name | Target | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `agents` | [Agent](https://docs.atlan.com/referenceable/asset/catalog/agentic/agent) | Agents that use this skill. |
| `sourceRepository` | [ContextRepository](https://docs.atlan.com/referenceable/asset/catalog/agentic/context-repository) | Context repository that produced this skill. |
| `artifacts` | [SkillArtifact](https://docs.atlan.com/referenceable/asset/catalog/agentic/skill-artifact) | Artifacts belonging to this skill. |

### Inherited properties

**From Referenceable:** `qualifiedName`, `replicatedFrom`, `replicatedTo`

**From Asset:** `name`, `displayName`, `description`, `sourceReadme`, `userDescription`, `aiGeneratedDescription`, `aiGeneratedDescriptionConfidence`, `aiGeneratedDescriptionReasoning`, `tenantId`, `certificateStatus`, `certificateStatusMessage`, `certificateUpdatedBy`, `certificateUpdatedAt`, `announcementTitle`, `announcementMessage`, `announcementType`, `announcementUpdatedAt`, `announcementUpdatedBy`, `announcementExpiredAt`, `ownerUsers`, `ownerGroups`, `adminUsers`, `adminGroups`, `viewerUsers`, `viewerGroups`, `connectorName`, `connectionName`, `connectionQualifiedName`, `managedBy`, `__hasLineage`, `isDiscoverable`, `isEditable`, `subType`, `viewScore`, `popularityScore`, `sourceOwners`, `sourceId`, `sourceCreatedBy`, `sourceCreatedAt`, `sourceUpdatedAt`, `sourceUpdatedBy`, `sourceURL`, `sourceEmbedURL`, `lastSyncWorkflowName`, `lastSyncRunAt`, `lastSyncRun`, `adminRoles`, `sourceReadCount`, `sourceReadUserCount`, `sourceLastReadAt`, `lastRowChangedAt`, `sourceTotalCost`, `sourceCostUnit`, `sourceReadQueryCost`, `sourceReadRecentUserList`, `sourceReadRecentUserRecordList`, `sourceReadTopUserList`, `sourceReadTopUserRecordList`, `sourceReadPopularQueryRecordList`, `sourceReadExpensiveQueryRecordList`, `sourceReadSlowQueryRecordList`, `sourceQueryComputeCostList`, `sourceQueryComputeCostRecordList`, `dbtQualifiedName`, `assetDbtWorkflowLastUpdated`, `assetDbtAlias`, `assetDbtMeta`, `assetDbtUniqueId`, `assetDbtAccountName`, `assetDbtProjectName`, `assetDbtPackageName`, `assetDbtJobName`, `assetDbtJobSchedule`, `assetDbtJobStatus`, `assetDbtTestStatus`, `assetDbtJobScheduleCronHumanized`, `assetDbtJobLastRun`, `assetDbtJobLastRunUrl`, `assetDbtJobLastRunCreatedAt`, `assetDbtJobLastRunUpdatedAt`, `assetDbtJobLastRunDequedAt`, `assetDbtJobLastRunStartedAt`, `assetDbtJobLastRunTotalDuration`, `assetDbtJobLastRunTotalDurationHumanized`, `assetDbtJobLastRunQueuedDuration`, `assetDbtJobLastRunQueuedDurationHumanized`, `assetDbtJobLastRunRunDuration`, `assetDbtJobLastRunRunDurationHumanized`, `assetDbtJobLastRunGitBranch`, `assetDbtJobLastRunGitSha`, `assetDbtJobLastRunStatusMessage`, `assetDbtJobLastRunOwnerThreadId`, `assetDbtJobLastRunExecutedByThreadId`, `assetDbtJobLastRunArtifactsSaved`, `assetDbtJobLastRunArtifactS3Path`, `assetDbtJobLastRunHasDocsGenerated`, `assetDbtJobLastRunHasSourcesGenerated`, `assetDbtJobLastRunNotificationsSent`, `assetDbtJobNextRun`, `assetDbtJobNextRunHumanized`, `assetDbtEnvironmentName`, `assetDbtEnvironmentDbtVersion`, `assetDbtTags`, `assetDbtSemanticLayerProxyUrl`, `assetDbtSourceFreshnessCriteria`, `sampleDataUrl`, `assetTags`, `assetMcIncidentNames`, `assetMcIncidentQualifiedNames`, `assetMcAlertQualifiedNames`, `assetMcMonitorNames`, `assetMcMonitorQualifiedNames`, `assetMcMonitorStatuses`, `assetMcMonitorTypes`, `assetMcMonitorScheduleTypes`, `assetMcIncidentTypes`, `assetMcIncidentSubTypes`, `assetMcIncidentSeverities`, `assetMcIncidentPriorities`, `assetMcIncidentStates`, `assetMcIsMonitored`, `assetMcLastSyncRunAt`, `starredBy`, `starredDetailsList`, `starredCount`, `assetAnomaloDQStatus`, `assetAnomaloCheckCount`, `assetAnomaloFailedCheckCount`, `assetAnomaloCheckStatuses`, `assetAnomaloLastCheckRunAt`, `assetAnomaloAppliedCheckTypes`, `assetAnomaloFailedCheckTypes`, `assetAnomaloSourceUrl`, `assetSodaDQStatus`, `assetSodaCheckCount`, `assetSodaLastSyncRunAt`, `assetSodaLastScanAt`, `assetSodaCheckStatuses`, `assetSodaSourceURL`, `assetIcon`, `summaryProvider`, `summary`, `assetSummaryFilterTokens`, `externalDQScoreValue`, `externalDQTestEntities`, `externalDQTestLatestScores`, `externalDQTestAvgScores`, `externalDQTestMinScores`, `externalDQMetadataDetails`, `isPartial`, `isAIGenerated`, `assetCoverImage`, `assetThemeHex`, `lexicographicalSortOrder`, `hasContract`, `assetRedirectGUIDs`, `assetPolicyGUIDs`, `assetPoliciesCount`, `domainGUIDs`, `nonCompliantAssetPolicyGUIDs`, `productGUIDs`, `outputProductGUIDs`, `applicationQualifiedName`, `applicationFieldQualifiedName`, `userDefinedType`, `internalPopularityScore`, `DQScheduleType`, `DQScheduleCrontab`, `DQScheduleTimeZone`, `DQScheduleSourceSyncStatus`, `DQScheduleSourceSyncedAt`, `DQScheduleSourceSyncErrorMessage`, `DQScheduleSourceSyncErrorCode`, `DQScheduleSourceSyncRawError`, `DQRuleAttachedDimensions`, `DQRuleFailedDimensions`, `DQRulePassedDimensions`, `DQRuleAttachedRuleTypes`, `DQRuleFailedRuleTypes`, `DQRulePassedRuleTypes`, `DQRuleResultTags`, `DQRuleLastRunAt`, `DQManualRunStatus`, `DQRuleTotalCount`, `DQRuleFailedCount`, `DQRulePassedCount`, `DQResult`, `DQFreshnessValue`, `DQFreshnessExpectation`, `DQRowScopeFilterColumnQualifiedName`, `spaceQualifiedName`, `spaceName`, `immutaRequestUrl`, `immutaRequestType`, `GCPDataplexMetadataDetails`, `GCPDataplexAspectList`, `GCPDataplexAspectFieldList`, `smusMetadataFormNames`, `smusMetadataFormKeyValueDetails`, `smusMetadataFormDetails`, `aiAlias`, `hasAiReadme`

**From Catalog:** `datasetGuid`

**From Agentic:** `version`, `source`

### Inherited relationships

**From Referenceable:** `meanings`, `userDefRelationshipTo`, `userDefRelationshipFrom`

**From Asset:** `anomaloChecks`, `application`, `field`, `repositories`, `dataContractLatest`, `dataContractLatestCertified`, `outputPortDataProducts`, `inputPortDataProducts`, `metrics`, `baseDatasetRules`, `referenceDatasetRules`, `metadataEntities`, `linkedFiles`, `mcMonitors`, `mcIncidents`, `files`, `links`, `readme`, `schemaRegistrySubjects`, `sodaChecks`

**From Catalog:** `inputToAirflowTasks`, `outputFromAirflowTasks`, `implementedEntities`, `implementedAttributes`, `childFields`, `childObjects`, `inputToProcesses`, `outputFromProcesses`, `inputToSparkJobs`, `outputFromSparkJobs`

_Last updated: 18 May 2026._

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