Skills
3 min
skills are reusable instructions the assistant can follow they are useful for standardizing investigations, codifying runbooks, and enabling repeatable workflows across your team each skill is defined by the following properties title the name that users and agents will recognize when referencing or activating the skill content the actual skill instructions skills are typically written in markdown and include a short metadata header followed by the detailed steps the assistant should follow visibility when enabled, only you can use or manage the skill when disabled, the skill is shared with the entire workspace enabled turns the skill on or off without deleting it, useful when you want to temporarily pause a skill the skills list can be filtered by all, private, or shared to help you quickly locate skills by their visibility scope creating a new skill to create a skill from scratch, click the new skill button in the top right corner this opens the skill editor screen, which shows a title field at the top and a content editor below it the content editor comes pre populated with a structured template, it includes a metadata block at the top where you fill in the skill name and description, followed by a content section where you describe the steps the assistant should follow in detail fill in the title, replace the template placeholders with your actual skill instructions, configure the private toggle as needed, then click save to create the skill importing a skill from a template to get started quickly from a pre built starting point, click browse templates in the top right corner this opens the import skill template dialog, which lists a set of curated templates ready to import click import next to any template to add it to your skills list once imported, you can open and customize the skill to suit your specific environment and workflows