Using Skills in Chat

Skills are built in Skills but used in chat. There are two ways a skill runs during a conversation: you pick one explicitly, or the AI selects one that matches your request.

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Picking a Skill

Click the skill button (lightning bolt icon) in the chat input bar. A picker opens with a search field and your active skills. Select one and it becomes the active skill for the conversation: your messages run through it until you clear the selection. This is the reliable way to run a specific skill. Use it when you know exactly which workflow you want.

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Letting the AI Choose

When no skill is pinned, the AI can still invoke a skill whose trigger phrases or description match your request. Asking “summarize this PDF” with a PDF attached, for example, can run the pdf-summarizer skill automatically.

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Skill Outputs

Skill results arrive in the conversation as structured output. Skills that produce files (PDFs, spreadsheets, decks, charts) attach them as downloads in the chat, and generated files also land in your Files.

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Tuning a Skill Mid-Conversation

Many skills expose tunables: named knobs the author declared, each with a default and a valid range. You adjust them conversationally; no editing, no re-running setup.

“That report is too strict. Only show me the severe items.”

The AI reruns the skill with the relevant tunable adjusted. Other things you can say:

• “What can I tune on this skill?” lists the available tunables, their current values, and ranges
• “Set the minimum deal value to 50k and look back 60 days” sets several at once
• Tunable changes apply per run; the next run goes back to defaults unless you ask again

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Running Skills Outside Chat

• Run now: the Run action on a skill card in Skills executes it immediately with a quick input form.
• On a schedule: the Schedule action, or the Schedules, runs a skill on a recurring cron schedule with saved inputs.