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Use a skill in a conversation

Get a saved procedure into the current conversation, either by asking for it or by letting a matching description bring it in.

Let Chetty choose

Each skill carries a description of when it applies, and that description is the trigger Chetty sees before loading the procedure:

Use when preparing the weekly customer-support report.

Only skills visible to the current turn are considered, so a skill from a plugin your account cannot use is never offered. A narrow description keeps a skill from loading for unrelated requests.

Load a skill by name

  1. In the Web UI or the CLI, type /skill: and the exact skill name.
  2. Press Enter. Chetty loads that skill's instructions before it answers.
/skill:deploy-checklist

To browse instead of typing a name, use /skills and pick the skill in the picker. A manual-only skill can still be loaded this way.

Use a short name shortcut

  1. Type / followed by the skill name, for example /deploy-checklist.
  2. Check the name you picked in the command suggestions before sending.

The shortcut exists only for names of up to 32 characters that do not clash with a built-in command. For anything else, use /skill:<name>.

Keep a skill manual only

Turn Show to agent automatically off in the Skills manager, or add disable-model-invocation: true to the skill's file. Both keep the skill available through /skill:<name> and /<skill-name> while removing it from automatic selection.

Let Chetty list or load

The assistant uses the same operations you do:

  • ListSkills lists the skills available to the conversation.
  • SkillLoad loads one by exact name.
  • CreateSkill saves a new skill, and DeleteSkill removes a custom skill you are allowed to manage. Both are described in Create a reusable procedure as a skill.

When a change takes effect

A change to grants, ownership or tool policy applies from a later conversation turn. A change to which plugins are enabled applies after Chetty restarts. A turn already in progress is not rewritten.

See Skills for who can manage which skill, and Create a reusable procedure as a skill for writing one.