Your AI Assistant Is Only as Good as Its Skills
Most AI tools stop at answering questions. Radish goes further — with Skills that give your agent the ability to do things across the tools you already use.
You’ve asked ChatGPT to help you write an email. You’ve asked it to summarise a document. Maybe you’ve even asked it to plan your week.
And it gave you something reasonable. You copied it, pasted it somewhere, did a bit of editing, and got on with your day.
That’s useful. But it’s not the same as getting things done.
There’s a difference between an AI that talks and an AI that acts. Most tools you’ve tried are firmly in the first camp. They’re great at generating text. They can’t touch your inbox, update your spreadsheet, or log anything anywhere — because they don’t have the capability to connect to the tools where your actual work lives.
That’s the gap Skills are built to close.
What Is a Skill?
Think of a Skill as a specialist you hand to your agent.
A Skill is a packaged capability you add to your agent. Some connect it to tools you already use — Gmail, Google Tasks, Dropbox, HubSpot, Slack. Others give it entirely new abilities: managing a knowledge base, running deep research, zero-inboxing your email, logging your day automatically.
Each Skill comes with two things:
A description — what the skill does, in plain language. So you know exactly what you’re adding before you add it.
A set of tools — the specific actions the agent is allowed to take. Read emails. Archive threads. Create a task. Search a folder. Not a blank cheque — precise, defined capabilities.
You stay in control of what your agent can and can’t do. And you can see it clearly before you commit to anything.
Your Agent Finds Them For You
Ask Radish to do something — “can you zero-inbox my Gmail?” — and if it needs a skill it doesn’t have yet, it tells you. Right there in the conversation. One confirmation and it’s imported, configured, and ready to go.
You described what you needed. Radish figured out the rest.
Or Browse Yourself
Not everyone wants to wait for a task to surface a need. If you want to explore what’s available — or just set yourself up before you start — the Skills panel shows you everything in the marketplace.
Find something useful, tap Import, and it’s ready immediately. No API keys to track down, no settings screens to fill in.
The Real Power: Skills That Work Together
A single skill is handy. Two skills working together is where things get genuinely useful.
Say you want to summarise your unread emails and turn the action items into tasks. You type one request. Radish figures out which skills to use — Gmail, Google Tasks — and runs them in sequence. You get the result. An agent with the right skills can combine them and complete tasks end to end.
This is the pattern that makes Radish different from a chatbot - it works across the tools to get things done.
A Growing Marketplace
The Skills marketplace already covers the tools most individuals and small businesses rely on: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, HubSpot, Dropbox, GitHub, LinkedIn, and more — with new skills added regularly.
Each one is vetted, versioned, and ready to install in seconds. No IT department required, no AI Slop creeping in.
The best assistant isn’t the one with the most impressive answers. It’s the one that gets things off your plate.