Skills

A skill is a set of reusable instructions the AI loads when it needs them. Where an agent's instructions describe that agent's job, a skill describes how to do one thing well, and you can use it with any agent or in any chat.

Skills are listed under Skills in the sidebar and shared across your organization. Editors and admins can create, edit and delete them.

Creating a skill

Open Skills and choose New skill:

• Name: lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens, for example invoice-parser.
• Description: when the skill should be used. The AI reads this to decide whether the skill is relevant, so make it specific.
• Content: the step-by-step instructions to follow when the skill is used. Markdown formatting works.

To change or remove a skill, open the menu on its row and choose Edit or Delete.

Using skills

• For one message: type / in a chat and pick the skill. It shows in your message as /name and applies to that message.
• Always, for one agent: type / in the agent's instructions and pick the skill. The agent then has it at hand in every chat.

A skill is only used where you attach it in one of these two ways. The AI sees the names and descriptions of the attached skills and loads a skill's content only when it applies, so attaching several costs little. App Builder chats do not use skills.

Why use skills

The point is to write instructions once. A procedure that several agents need, such as how your invoices are laid out, your house style for customer replies, or which fields matter in your CRM, belongs in a skill rather than copied into each agent's instructions.

Built-in document skills

Some models come with skills for creating and editing Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and PDF files, including formulas, formatting and charts. When the chat's model has them, they appear in the / list as xlsx, docx, pptx and pdf. Pick one for a message, or reference it in an agent's instructions like any other skill.

The same models accept spreadsheets, Word and PowerPoint files as attachments, and attaching one brings in the matching skill on its own.

These skills run code to do their work, which Tunori turns on for them automatically: the agent does not need the Code Execution capability.