Skills & Context Docs

Using Micro

Customize how the AI assistant works with skills, slash commands, @mentions, and context documents.

Micro’s AI learns how to work better for you through two systems: Skills for common actions, and Context Docs for persistent information about you and your team.

Skills

Skills are reusable slash commands that tell the AI how to complete specific tasks. Type / in the AI chat to see them.

Browse and install plugins, automations, lists, and integrations from the Marketplace — find it in the sidebar.

Using Skills

Open the AI chat
Type / to see the skills dropdown
Start typing to filter (e.g., /prep finds /prep-me)
Select a skill with arrow keys or click
Add additional context after the skill (e.g., /prep-me for meeting with Sarah)
Press Enter

Built-in Skills

Meeting Prep & Email

/prep-me — Prepare for your next meeting with context and talking points
/draft-email — Draft a professional email based on context
/cold-email — Draft a cold outreach email
/summarize-thread — Summarize an email thread

Daily & Productivity

/today — What you need to know today
/followups — Follow-ups you need to send
/process-inbox — Help organizing your inbox
/prioritize — Sort and prioritize your tasks
/weekly-recap — Summary of your week
/catch-me-up — Catch up on what you missed
/news — Relevant news for your contacts
/simplify-calendar — Optimize and simplify your calendar

Context Docs (update your AI’s memory)

/update-writing-style — Teach the AI how you write
/update-personal-context — Update info about you
/update-company-context — Update info about your company
/update-meeting-preferences — How you like meetings prepared
/update-priorities — Your current focus areas and priorities
/update-fundraise-context — Your fundraising details
/update-sales-context — Your sales process
/update-hiring-context — Your hiring needs
/update-dealflow-context — Your deal evaluation criteria
/update-portco-context — Your portfolio companies
/update-lp-context — Your LP relationships

Pipeline Reviews

/fundraise-review — Review your fundraising pipeline
/sales-review — Review your sales pipeline
/hiring-review — Review your hiring pipeline
/dealflow-review — Review your deal flow
/portco-review — Review your portfolio
/lp-fundraise-review — Review LP fundraising progress

Intros & Networking

/intro — Draft a warm introduction between two people
/intro-request — Ask someone for an introduction
/intro-path — Find a connection path to someone
/who-do-i-know — Find relevant contacts in your network

Research

/research — General research on a topic
/research-person — Deep dive on a specific person
/research-startup — Deep dive on a startup
/research-investor — Deep dive on an investor

Updates & Drafting

/investor-update — Draft an investor update
/lp-update — Draft an LP update
/unsubscribe-candidates — Find emails to unsubscribe from

Analysis

/deal-memo — Generate a deal memo
/pitch-prep — Prepare for a pitch meeting
/product-feedback — Analyze product feedback

Creating Custom Skills

Create your own skills in Settings → Skills:

Click Create skill
Enter a name (e.g., “Weekly standup prep”)
Enter a command (e.g., standup-prep) — this becomes /standup-prep
Write a description shown in the dropdown
Write the instructions — what the AI follows when you run it
Optionally pick an emoji icon
Save

Custom skills appear alongside built-in ones when you type / in chat.

You can also ask the agent to edit any of your user-created skills — just say “update my [skill name] skill to include…” and it will read the current instructions and update them for you. System skills are protected.

@Mentions

Reference specific people, companies, and other objects in your AI chat using @mentions.

How to use mentions

Type @ in the AI chat
Start typing a name to search
Select from the dropdown

What you can mention

Type	Example
People	@Sarah Chen
Companies	@Acme Corp
Documents	@Q4 Planning
Tasks	@Follow up with investors
Email threads	@RE: Partnership proposal
Calendar events	@Board meeting
Lists & views	@Sales Pipeline
Automations	@Weekly digest automation

When you @mention something, the AI gets full context about that object — its properties, related data, and history.

Context Docs

Context Docs give the AI persistent information about you, your company, and how you work. The AI references them automatically in every conversation.

Personal Context

Found in Settings → Personalization, personal context docs tell the AI about:

Your role and responsibilities
Your communication style and writing preferences
Meeting preparation preferences

You can update these manually or use the /update- skills listed above.

Team Context (Knowledge Base)

Found in Settings → Knowledge Base, team context docs include:

Company information and positioning
Product details
Team processes and workflows
Competitor information

These are shared across your workspace — everyone’s AI benefits from team context.

List Context Docs

Each list has its own collection of context documents the AI references when autofilling properties and answering questions about that list.

Access it from the Autofill button in the list header → Context Docs section.

Each document can describe:

What the list is for
How records should progress through stages
Criteria for status changes
Industry context, qualification criteria, or any other relevant info

Auto-Generated Context Docs

When you create a new list, the AI automatically generates a starter context document. It searches your email history and company information to write a relevant overview. You can edit, add more documents, or delete them at any time.

Managing Context Docs

The AI agent can also create and update context docs on your behalf. Use the /update- skills (like /update-fundraise-context) or just ask the agent to “update my list’s context docs.”

Tips

Be Specific

The more specific your context docs, the better the AI performs. Include examples of good outputs.

Update Regularly

Keep context docs current as your processes evolve. Use the /update- skills to make it easy.

Combine Skills with Mentions

The most powerful pattern: /prep-me for meeting with @Sarah Chen about @Series A fundraise. The AI gets the skill instructions plus full context on Sarah and your fundraise list.