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Most of the time your coworker picks the right skill by itself. When you want to be sure, call it by name.

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Calling one by name

Type / in the message box and the menu appears. Your coworker’s skills are in it, each described as “Use the name skill”.
The command menu with built-in commands above a skill and a workflow, each carrying a badge

Your skills and saved workflows sit in the same menu as the built-in commands, each badged so you can tell them apart.

Pick one and it inserts /skill-name so you can add the specifics before sending:
That runs your procedure against that subject. Without anything after the name, it runs the skill and asks for what it needs.

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When to call one deliberately

  • The task is ambiguous and more than one skill could apply
  • You want the formal version of something your coworker would otherwise do casually
  • You’re testing a skill you just wrote
  • The output has to match a house format exactly — a client-facing report, a board summary
  • Your coworker did it the wrong way last time

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When not to bother

Most of the time. If a skill’s description is well written, your coworker recognises the moment on its own — and a task where it chooses correctly is a task where the skill is doing its job.
If you find yourself always calling a skill by name because your coworker never picks it, the fix is the description, not the habit. See Creating a skill.

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Good to know

A skill name that clashes with a built-in command or a saved workflow doesn’t get its own menu entry, so nothing is ambiguous. You can still ask for it in plain words: “use the competitive-analysis skill for Northwind”.
Calling a skill doesn’t restrict your coworker to it. It follows the procedure and still uses judgement around the edges — if the skill’s step 5 doesn’t apply, it says so.

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Common questions

Type / and start typing — the menu filters as you go. Or just describe what you want; your coworker usually finds the right one.
Yes. Ask for the second one when you get there, or describe a job that needs both and let your coworker sequence them.
No. Your coworker reads that procedure either way — you’re just removing the guesswork about which.
Yes — saved workflows appear in the same menu as “Run the name workflow”. See Slash commands.

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Next steps

Slash commands

Everything else in the menu.

Creating a skill

Write one worth calling.

What skills are

Back to the basics.

The built-in skills

The ones already there.