Create a skill

POST/v1/skillsCreate a skill

Creates a skill from a zip bundle. The bundle must contain a SKILL.md that provides the skill name and description; those fields are read from the bundle, not from the request.

Request body

required

The skill bundle as a zip archive

multipart/form-data

object

filestring · binaryrequired

The skill bundle, a zip archive containing `SKILL.md`

Example request

{
  "file": "binary"
}

Responses

objectManagedSkill

created_atstring · date-time

descriptionstring

Skill description, read from the bundle's `SKILL.md`

latest_revisionstring

Opaque token of the skill's current latest revision; pass as expected_revision to update or delete

namestring

Skill name, read from the bundle's `SKILL.md`

revisionstring

Opaque token of the revision returned in this response; the latest revision, or the specific one requested via `revision`

skill_idstringrequired

Skill identifier

updated_atstring · date-time

Example response

{
  "created_at": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z",
  "description": "string",
  "latest_revision": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "revision": "string",
  "skill_id": "string",
  "updated_at": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z"
}

objectApiError

errorobject

Show child attributes

codeintegerrequired

HTTP status code

messagestringrequired

Human-readable error message

paramnull | string

Parameter that caused the error

typestringrequired

Error type identifier

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

objectApiError

errorobject

Show child attributes

codeintegerrequired

HTTP status code

messagestringrequired

Human-readable error message

paramnull | string

Parameter that caused the error

typestringrequired

Error type identifier

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

objectApiError

errorobject

Show child attributes

codeintegerrequired

HTTP status code

messagestringrequired

Human-readable error message

paramnull | string

Parameter that caused the error

typestringrequired

Error type identifier

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

objectApiError

errorobject

Show child attributes

codeintegerrequired

HTTP status code

messagestringrequired

Human-readable error message

paramnull | string

Parameter that caused the error

typestringrequired

Error type identifier

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

objectApiError

errorobject

Show child attributes

codeintegerrequired

HTTP status code

messagestringrequired

Human-readable error message

paramnull | string

Parameter that caused the error

typestringrequired

Error type identifier

Example response

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

Examples

curl -X POST 'https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills'

const response = await fetch('https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills', { method: 'POST' });
const data = await response.json();

const response = await fetch('https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills', { method: 'POST' });
console.log(await response.json());

import requests

response = requests.request("POST", "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills")
print(response.json())

package main

import (
	"context"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.Background()
	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "POST", "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills", nil)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
}

<?php
$request = curl_init("https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills");
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
$response = curl_exec($request);
curl_close($request);

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills"))
    .method("POST", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
    .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

require 'net/http'

uri = URI("https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills")
request = Net::HTTPGenericRequest.new("POST", false, true, uri)
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }

using var client = new HttpClient();
using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://api.perplexity.ai/v1/skills");
using var response = await client.SendAsync(request);

{
  "created_at": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z",
  "description": "string",
  "latest_revision": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "revision": "string",
  "skill_id": "string",
  "updated_at": "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z"
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": 0,
    "message": "string",
    "param": "string",
    "type": "string"
  }
}

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Skills

Operations

Request body

Responses

Skills

Operations