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Skills

Skills provide the agent with specialized knowledge for specific topics. When a user asks a question related to a skill, the agent loads that skill to provide expert-level guidance with detailed examples and best practices.

The agent automatically discovers available skills at startup and proactively loads relevant skills based on user questions.

Custom Skills

Custom skills allow you to extend the agent with domain-specific knowledge tailored to your organization's needs. There are two types of custom skills:

  • Custom user skills - Created by individual users through the Settings page. Available only to the user who created them.
  • Custom system skills - Created by admins through the Admin Settings page. Available to all users.

Custom User Skills

Custom user skills are personal skills that individual users can create and manage directly from the User Settings page. They are available only to the user who created them.

Creating Custom User Skills

  1. Navigate to User Settings in the Splunk app.

  2. Under the User Skills section, click + Add.

  3. Fill in the following fields:

    • Name - The skill's display name.
    • Description - A short description of when the AI should use this skill.
    • Content - The detailed instructions, best practices, or examples the AI should follow.

  4. Click Save.

The agent will automatically load relevant custom user skills based on your questions, just like custom system skills.

Custom System Skills

Custom system skills are managed by admins through the Admin Settings page and are available to all users.

Creating Custom System Skills

  1. Navigate to Admin Settings in the Splunk app.

  2. Under the System Skills section, click + Add.

  3. Fill in the following fields:

    • Name - The skill's display name. Used by the agent to identify and load the skill.

    • Description - A brief description of what the skill covers. Used by the agent to decide when it should load the skill. Write it from the perspective of when the AI should use it (e.g., "Use when generating, reviewing, or explaining quarterly reports or dashboards.").

    • Content - The skill's body, written in markdown. Include the detailed instructions, best practices, examples, or reference material the AI should follow when the skill is loaded.

  4. Click Save.

The agent will automatically load relevant custom system skills based on user questions.

Built-in Skills

Built-in skills come bundled with the agent and are ready to be used by default.

The agent selectively loads them based on the user's prompt to extend its context with domain-specific knowledge, detailed guidance, and best practices, which helps improve the quality and consistency of its responses.