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Create and use skills

What skills are, the two ways to run one in a conversation, and how to create them by talking to Aracor Partner or by importing what you already have.

Written by Jona Smulders Cohen

A skill is a saved set of instructions for work you repeat, for example drafting an investment committee memo from a CIM and a management presentation. Aracor ships with built-in skills, and you can add your own for the way your team works.

Run a skill in a conversation

There are two ways to pick one:

  • Click the Skills button in the toolbar under the message box.

  • Type / at the start of the message box to open the same picker and filter as you type.

Choose a skill, add any detail it needs, and send.

Create a skill by talking to Aracor Partner

You do not need to go to a settings page. In any conversation, ask Aracor Partner to create a skill and describe what you want it to do.

From there it is a normal conversation. You can go back and forth on the details, and you can attach the material that shows Aracor what good looks like:

  • Example work product, such as a memo or a report in the format you want

  • A playbook or house style guide

  • An entire folder of past work product, so the skill learns from more than one example

Refine it until you are happy, then save it.

Create a skill from Settings

You can also start from Settings > Customization. Answer What should this skill do? in a sentence or two, then click Continue in chat, which drops you into the same conversation flow described above. You need a project selected first, because the conversation that builds the skill runs inside a project.

Where skills live

Open Settings > Customization to see every skill available to you, filtered by scope:

  • Built-in: skills Aracor provides

  • Workspace: skills shared with everyone in your workspace

  • Your personal skills, which only you can run

Import a skill you already have

If you have written a skill or prompt elsewhere, import it instead of starting over. Aracor accepts:

  • A Claude or agent skill (SKILL.md)

  • A Claude skill export (.zip)

  • A ChatGPT Custom GPT config

  • A Markdown or plain text document

Turn on Share with workspace during import to make the skill available to your whole team rather than only to you.

Edit or delete a skill

Open the skill from Settings > Customization to edit its instructions or delete it. Built-in skills cannot be edited or deleted.

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