Skills
Write down how a job is done once, or save it from a chat, and a bot or a whole group follows it from then on.
A skill is how a job is done, written down for a bot or a group: when to use it, the steps, an example, and any reference text or scripts it needs. A bot sees the name and description of each of its skills on every turn and reads the whole skill when a task matches, so a long skill costs nothing until it's needed.
Where skills live
A bot's skills are in the Skills section of its direct chat's inspector, and a group's in the group's inspector (on the phone, in the chat's Details). The section shows once there is a skill or a draft. A group's skills are for every bot in that group, in that group only.
Every bot also has one skill built in, lorca, which points it at these docs. Ask a bot how to do something in Lorca and it reads the page here before it answers. It doesn't show in the Skills section.
Write one
Choose Chat › New Skill…, or click + beside Skills once the section shows (on the phone, Add Skill › New Skill…). A skill has:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Name | A short name, written as a slug, such as weekly-report. |
| Description | When to use it. The bot reads this to decide. |
| Instructions | The steps. |
| Examples | What good output looks like. |
| References and Scripts | Text files the skill carries, such as a style guide or a script the bot runs with its own tools. |
Save makes it available from the bot's next turn. Anything that looks like a password or a key is removed as it is saved.
Save one from a chat
When a bot has done something the way you want it done again, right-click its reply and choose Save as Skill…. When you have corrected a bot more than once, right-click one of your messages and choose Save as Standing Instruction…. On the phone, use Add Skill › From This Chat… in Details.
The sheet lists the chat's recent messages: tick the ones that show the work, and in a group choose whether the skill is for the group or for one bot. Continue has the bot's provider write a draft from those messages and opens it for you to edit. A bot can also propose a skill itself; the chat then says where to review it.
A draft is never used. Only Save turns it on.
You can also teach a bot a website task by doing it once in its browser; see Record a workflow.
History and export
A saved skill's History tab lists every version with the date and the Device: created, drafted from a chat, saved, edited. Pick one to read what it said then. Skills sync to all your devices.
Export… in a skill's menu saves it as a file to keep or to give someone (the share sheet on the phone). The file holds the skill's text and files, and nothing about your account. To share a whole bot, skills included, see Share a bot.
A bot's feedback can suggest changes to a skill's instructions, which you accept or reject.