# Use AI skills

> Apply a ready-made AI skill before you ask Mida, so what it creates follows the same style and rules every time, and create skills of your own for your team.

Source: https://mockflow.com/docs/use-ai-skills

An AI skill is a set of ready-made instructions that guides what Mida creates. Apply one before you ask, and the result follows its rules: mind maps with emoji-only labels, wireframes in your design system, or documents with a fixed section order. Save a prompt you use often as a skill, and your whole team can reuse it.

![Opening Browse Skills, choosing Brainstorm, applying Emoji Only Mindmap, which shows as a pill above the prompt, and asking Mida for a launch week mind map, which it builds with emoji labels](https://assets.mockflow.com/docs/media/553d902ff4ae4df393ffc6d26f172da9.webp)

## Apply a skill

![The AI Skills dialog with the skill categories, Generate Skill and Create New Skill marked](https://assets.mockflow.com/docs/media/fe007d4c21e94e52b66941f93e17ac7c.webp)

1. Open Mida and click **Browse Skills** below the prompt field.
2. Choose what you want to create (1), such as **Brainstorm**, **Diagrams**, **UI Design** or **Planning**, or click **All Skills**.
3. Click **Apply** on the skill you want.
4. Describe what you need and press Enter.

The applied skill shows as a pill above the prompt, and the prompt hint changes to match it. Mida follows the skill for your requests until you remove the pill with its **×**.

![An emoji only mind map of a launch week, made with the Emoji Only Mindmap skill](https://assets.mockflow.com/docs/media/335e6857440146b4ab804d820729d651.webp)

## Public and team skills

- **Public Skills** are published skills that anyone can apply on any board.
- **Team Skills** are the skills your team has created, available to everyone on your team.

When you open the skills from a component's own AI prompt, the list shows only the skills that apply to that component.

## Create your own skill

You can describe a skill and let Mida write it, or write it yourself:

- **Generate Skill** (2): describe the skill you want, for example _Mind maps that use only emojis as node labels_, choose what it **Produces**, and Mida writes it.
- **Create New Skill** (3): give it a **Name**, a **Description**, what it **Produces**, the **AI Instructions** to follow every time, an optional **Placeholder Text** for the prompt and **Tags** for search, then click **Create Skill**.

What the skill produces decides which components it is offered on.

## Next steps

- [Generate a board from a prompt](/docs/generate-a-board-from-a-prompt)
- [Change selected items with Mida](/docs/change-selected-items-with-mida)
- [Meet Mida, your AI on the board](/docs/meet-mida)