How Can I Create a Skill from the Skill Library?

Last updated: November 6, 2026

Ambition's ever-growing Skill library offers plug-and-play prompts that you can save and use when chatting with the AI agent.

This article details how you can save and use a Skill from the example library in just a few clicks.

Required permissions:

  • No special permission is required to create a Skill for yourself to use.

  • The AI: Skill Sharing: Can Share Skills with Anyone permission is required to share Skills with any user in your organization.

  • The AI: Skill Sharing: Can Share Skills for Subordinate Users permission is required to share Skills with your direct and skip-level reports.

Access the Skills Page

  1. Go to Hub --> Skills --> + New Skill.

  2. You'll then be taken to the New Skill page. You can select a pre-loaded Skill from the example library at the top of the page.

  3. Scroll through the Skills until you find the Skill you would like to use, or you can use the categories to find Skills that serve a certain purpose, such as Pipeline or Competitions.

Select the Skill You Want to Create

  1. Click on the Skill that you would like to use. This will fill in the Skill creation form's fields with pre-loaded information.

  1. Optional: You can customize any field from a pre-loaded Skill, including the name, description, instructions, Parameters, and sharing settings.

  2. Optional: If your selected Skill has Parameters, determine what those should be in the Parameters section.

  1. Optional: If you have a Skill sharing permission, review the Sharing section. Library Skills can pre-fill Who can use it with a suggested audience, so change it if you want to keep the Skill to yourself.

Preview and Save Your Skill

  1. In the Preview panel on the right (or the Preview tab on small screens), choose a sample for each parameter.

  2. Click on Run preview to see how the Skill will respond. Click on Run again after making changes.

  3. Click on Create skill. You don't need to run a preview before saving.

Modify Your Skill

  1. You can view your Skill any time on the Skills page.

  2. You can edit, duplicate, or delete a Skill by clicking on the ellipses icon next to the Skill's name.

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