---
title: Get
url: https://www.tines.com/stories/docs/api/skills/get/
updated: 2026-08-28T15:50:17+00:00
description: Retrieve a single skill. Skills are addressed by name, and skill names are only unique within a team, so `team_id` is required.
---

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# Get

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## Description

Retrieve a single skill. Skills are addressed by name, and skill names are only unique within a team, so `team_id` is required.

## Request

HTTP Method: **GET**

| Path Parameter | Description                        |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------- |
| skill_name     | The name of the skill to retrieve. |

| Query Parameter | Description                         |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| team_id         | ID of the team that owns the skill. |

```bash
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -X GET \
  'https://<tenant-domain>/api/v1/skills/<<skill_name>>?team_id=42' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <<CREDENTIAL.tines_api_key>>'
```

## Response

A successful request will return a JSON object describing the requested skill.

### Field description

| Parameter     | Description                                                                                                                                                   |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| name          | Skill name.                                                                                                                                                   |
| description   | What the skill does and when to use it. AI agents are shown only the name and description, and match a task against them to decide whether to load the skill. |
| body          | The full skill instructions, in markdown. Loaded only after the description matches the task at hand.                                                         |
| license       | License the skill is distributed under. Null when it was never set.                                                                                           |
| compatibility | Free-text note on what the skill is compatible with. Null when it was never set.                                                                              |
| metadata      | Flat map of string keys to string values, empty when none are set.                                                                                            |
| team_id       | ID of the team that owns the skill.                                                                                                                           |
| created_at    | ISO 8601 timestamp describing when the skill was created.                                                                                                     |
| updated_at    | ISO 8601 timestamp describing when the skill was last updated.                                                                                                |

### Sample response

```json
{
  "name": "triage-alerts",
  "description": "Triage inbound security alerts. Use when a new alert needs a severity assessment.",
  "body": "# Triage alerts\n\nStart by checking the alert severity.",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "compatibility": null,
  "metadata": { "source_repo": "runbooks" },
  "team_id": 42,
  "created_at": "2026-08-26T09:00:00.000Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-26T09:00:00.000Z"
}
```