# Customize Kairo

> Skills, writing styles, and where to find Kairo's other settings.

Source: https://docs.coline.app/kairo/customize

Open **Customize** from the Kairo sidebar. It has tabs for **Crew**, **Memory**, **Routines**, **Skills** and **Writing Styles**.

## Skills

A skill is reusable know-how that Kairo pulls in when a task calls for it, such as how your team writes release notes or files a bug.

* **Create a skill** with a name, a description of when to use it, and instructions in Markdown (`SKILL.md`). Add files the skill can refer to, such as templates or examples.
* **Personal skills** are yours. **Workspace skills** are shared with everyone in the workspace. **Built-in** skills come with Coline.
* Kairo picks a skill when its description matches the task. **Pin** a skill to keep it active in every conversation, or turn one off.
* Type `/` in the composer to use a skill directly.

## Writing styles

A writing style sets how Kairo sounds when it writes for you: mail, messages and documents.

* **From example:** paste a paragraph or two in the style you want.
* **From personality:** describe it, such as "short and warm, no exclamation marks".
* **Write prompt:** write the instructions yourself.

Set one style as your default. Kairo always writes plainly and without filler; a style changes tone and voice on top of that.

## Elsewhere

* **Crew:** what your crew may do without asking, approvals you've given, and the daily digest. See [Kairo Crew](/kairo/crew#what-it-may-do-without-asking).
* **Memory:** what Kairo remembers about you. See [memory](/kairo/memory).
* **Routines:** standing work. See [routines](/kairo/routines).
* **Preferences:** turn off sending what you have open with each message ([live context](/kairo/overview#it-knows-what-youre-looking-at)).