Skills in Blockbrain

Skills are designed to save you time, ensure consistency, and make your AI agent smarter by giving it reusable procedures it can call upon whenever needed.

What Are Skills?

Skills are reusable, saved instructions or procedures that you can create, store, and invoke within Blockbrain. Think of a Skill as a shortcut to a predefined workflow or action - instead of typing out the same instructions every time, you save them once as a Skill and run them on demand with just a few keystrokes.

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Why Use Skills?

Benefit	Description
Speed	Invoke complex workflows instantly without retyping instructions
Reusability	Create once, use many times across conversations
Organization	Store Skills in folders to keep your workspace tidy
Agent-ready	Your AI agent can execute Skills automatically as part of its workflow
Precision	Skills ensure the same procedure is followed every time

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Creating a Skill

There are two ways to create a Skill in Blockbrain:

Option 1: Save a Message as a Skill

This is the quickest way to turn an existing instruction or AI response into a reusable Skill

1. Find the message in your conversation that contains the instructions or procedure you want to save

2. Click the "Save message as skill" action (available on any message)

3. A "Choose a folder" modal will appear - select the destination folder where you want to store the Skill

4. Complete the save action

The Skill will only appear in your Skill library once the save has been fully completed.

Option 2: Create a Skill Directly from the Knowledge Management

1. Navigate to the Knowledge Management section from your top navigation bar

2. Click the "Add Skill" button

3. Click the "Add new" button

4. Give your Skill a name and a unique handle (e.g., weekly-status-report)

5. Write the instructions or procedure content in the editor

6. Choose a folder to organize it in

7. Save your Skill

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Organizing Skills into Folders

Skills can be stored in folders to help you keep them organised, especially as your library grows.

• When saving a Skill, you will be prompted to choose a destination folder

• You can create new folders or select existing ones

• Folders appear in the Skills management page for easy browsing

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Invoking a Skill - Using the Slash Command (/)

You must connect the skill to a chat in order to use it with / command.

The fastest way to run a Skill in a conversation is via the slash command:

How to Use the / Command

Action	What to Type	Result
Browse all skills	/ skill	Opens the full Skills submenu
Invoke a specific skill	/ [handle]	Directly runs the Skill with that handle

Example

If you have a Skill with the handle weekly-status-report, you can invoke it by typing:

/weekly-status-report  

This will immediately trigger that Skill in your current conversation.

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Managing Your Skills

Viewing All Skills

1. Navigate to the Knowledge Management section

2. All your saved Skills are listed here, organized by folder

Editing a Skill

1. Go to the Knowledge Management section

2. Navigate to Skills section

3. Find the Skill you want to edit and click on it

4. Update the name, handle, content, or folder

5. Save your changes

Deleting a Skill

1. Go to the Skills page

2. Select the Skill you wish to delete

3. Click Delete and confirm the action in the confirmation dialog

Deletion is permanent. Make sure you no longer need the Skill before confirming.

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Tips & Best Practices

• Use clear handles - choose short, descriptive handles like summarize-report or send-weekly-update so they're easy to remember and type

• Use folders - organize Skills into logical categories (e.g., Marketing, Finance, HR) to make them easy to find

• Be specific in your instructions - the more precise the Skill content, the more reliably your agent will execute it

• Review Skills regularly - archive or delete outdated Skills to keep your library clean

• Combine Skills with Prompts - use the / command to mix Skills and Prompts for maximum flexibility in your conversations