Create a skill

A skill packages a multi-step Falcon AI workflow into a slash command that anyone in your workspace can reuse, so instead of re-explaining a recurring analysis in every conversation, you type one command and Falcon AI runs the workflow behind it. This guide walks through building your own, from opening the editor to running what you save.

Open the skill editor

Skills are built from Falcon AI’s full page view; see Chat with Falcon AI if you haven’t opened it yet. For what a skill is, see Skills.

Click Customize in the left rail of the Falcon AI full page to open the Customize panel, then pick Skills from its nav to see the skills available in your workspace, with a search field for finding one by name. Click Create Skill at the bottom of that list to open the editor for a brand new skill.

Fill in the skill

The Customize editor asks for four fields.

Name is required and limited to 100 characters, and it’s how the skill is labelled in the Skills list, so keep it short.

Description is optional. It shows in the skill picker, so it’s worth a line explaining what the skill does.

Instructions is required. It’s the prompt Falcon AI follows once the skill runs. Describe the workflow and reasoning, not a rigid script of commands to execute:

• Workflow: “Compare this week’s scores against last week’s, and flag any metric that dropped by more than 5%.”
• Script: “Call the scores endpoint for this week, call it again for last week, then subtract.”

Trigger phrases need at least one entry before you can save; each one is an example of how someone might ask for this skill. Type a phrase and press Enter to add it to the list.

Example: a weekly eval regression review skill

Here’s a complete skill that compares Evaluations scores week over week, filled in field by field:

• Name: Weekly Eval Regression Review

• Description: Comparing this week’s evaluation scores against last week’s and flagging anything that dropped

• Instructions:

  Pull the evaluation scores for every dataset in this workspace from the last 7 days, then pull the same metrics for the 7 days before that as a baseline. Compare the two periods per dataset and per metric, and treat any metric that dropped by more than 5% as a regression worth flagging. Present the findings as a table with columns for Dataset, Metric, This Week, Last Week, and Change, with the biggest drops listed first. If nothing regressed, say so plainly instead of returning an empty table.

• Trigger phrases: “weekly eval review” and “check eval regressions”

Save and run it

Click Save at the bottom of the editor to store the skill; it reads Saving… while it works.

The skill you save gets its own slash command. Run it in any conversation by typing / in the chat input and picking the skill from the list that appears.

Edit, delete, and duplicate skills

Custom skills can be edited and deleted. Open one again from the Skills list in Customize, change whatever field needs it, and save to update it. Delete removes it from the workspace entirely, and that option is available on any custom skill; skills that shipped with Falcon AI don’t offer it. If a shipped skill covers most of what you need but not quite all of it, open it and click Duplicate instead of building from scratch. That gives you your own editable copy, ready to rename and adjust into the variant you actually want.

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