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May 18, 2026

Skills in web, iOS, and Android

Persistent expertise for Grok. Generate documents, decks, and spreadsheets. Automate workflows. Build and share your own skills.

Today, we're launching Skills. Teach Grok something once and it remembers across every conversation. No more repeating your preferences, formatting rules, or workflow steps.

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Ready Out of the Box

Every Grok account ships with built-in skills from xAI, with no setup required. If you want to customize one, just override it with your own version. Yours always takes priority.

Word Documents

xAI

Create and edit .docx with full formatting

Presentations

xAI

Build slide decks from scratch

Spreadsheets

xAI

Generate formatted spreadsheets and analyze data

PDFs

xAI

Create, merge, split, and extract from PDFs

Skill Creator

xAI

Build new custom skills through conversation

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Instant Office Documents

Need a formatted invoice, a pitch deck, or a budget spreadsheet? Grok generates production-ready Word docs, PowerPoint slides, Excel files, and PDFs, all styled and ready to share. You can also upload existing files and Grok will restructure, polish, or expand them.

Presentations
Word Documents
Spreadsheets
PDF Reports

Presentations

Build complete slide decks for pitches, quarterly reviews, and workshops with strong visual hierarchy and speaker notes.

“Design a Leadership Strategic Thinking Workshop deck with exercises, frameworks, and takeaways.”

Word Documents

Generate polished invoices, contracts, proposals, and resumes with full formatting — headings, tables, bullet points, and consistent styling.

“Create a professional enterprise invoice for APEX-2026-0547 with line items, tax, and payment terms.”

Spreadsheets

Generate formatted spreadsheets with formulas, color-coded sections, and clear structure — budgets, dashboards, and forecasts.

“Create a monthly budget tracker with income, expenses, and savings projections.”

PDF Reports

Create polished PDF reports, proposals, and research papers — formatted, styled, and ready to share.

“Generate a PDF report on AI interpretability formatted for conference submission.”

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Build Your Own

Creating a skill takes seconds. Describe it in conversation, upload a file, or write one from scratch. Invested time perfecting a format or workflow? Just ask Grok to save everything it learned as a skill so you never have to explain it again.

Get Started

Skills are live now on Grok 4.3 across grok.com, iOS, and Android.

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