Create Skills from Chat

How the AI suggests turning procedures established in conversation into Skills — attaching existing ones, importing SKILL.md files, and keeping them up to date

In Jinba App Neo, Skills can grow directly out of your chat conversations. You don’t have to write a playbook from scratch — the back-and-forth of real work becomes a Skill.

Skill suggestions

When a reusable procedure takes shape during a chat, the AI shows a “Skill suggestion” card.

1. Review the content

   Check what will be saved in the card’s “Body preview.” Click “View full text” to expand it. The tools the Skill uses are also shown.

2. Choose a scope

   • This agent only — usable only by the current agent. You can promote it to shared later from the Skills list
   • Workspace shared — usable from every agent
3. Save, request changes, or dismiss

   Click “Save” to register the Skill, or “Not now” to pass on it. If the draft is close but not quite right, choose “Request changes” and describe what you’d like changed — the AI revises the draft and presents a new proposal card. Once saved, you can edit the skill anytime from the Skills list.

A skill saved mid-conversation can also be refined in the same conversation — just keep going (“actually, add X too”) and the AI proposes an update with a diff. Note that the saved skill itself takes effect in new chats.

Saving several skills at once

When one request yields more than one skill — an agent you are building from scratch, a bundle of procedures you asked to have registered — the AI first lists the planned skills in prose (the name plus one line on when each is used) so you can prune the list, then shows a single “Save as skills (N)” card instead of one card per skill. Grouped cards appear only when you explicitly asked to save or create skills.

• Each draft is a row with a checkbox, ticked by default; untick the ones you do not want, or use “Select all” / “Clear all”. The header counts “n of N selected”, and “Show full body” on a row expands the draft and the tools it uses
• The save location (“Save to”: “This agent only” / “Shared with workspace”) is chosen once for the whole card. For the agent scope the card says how many more skills the agent can hold (“Room for n more on this agent”) and warns when the selection is larger (“Pick n or fewer, or switch to the shared workspace”, or “This agent is full. Switch to the shared workspace, or remove a skill first”); the shared-workspace scope has its own cap and warns the same way (“The shared workspace has room for n more. Pick fewer.”)
• “Save n” creates the ticked rows together — either all of them are created or none is, so untick the rows that do not fit rather than hoping some go through. “Not now” skips the whole card, and “Request changes” sends your feedback so the AI re-proposes the full list
• Afterwards the card reads “Created n skills” (with “(k skipped)” for the rows you left out) and the AI carries on, treating the skipped drafts as not existing. A card holds up to 20 drafts; a larger set is split across cards

Skill update suggestions

While working with an existing Skill, if the AI detects a gap between what the Skill says and what you actually did, it shows a “Skill update suggestion” card.

• Review the changes in the “Body diff”
• Click “Apply update” to update the existing Skill
• If the target is a shared Skill, note that the change also propagates to every other agent it is attached to

Attaching existing skills from chat

Skills your workspace already has can be attached to an agent from the conversation, too. In a chat with the agent, ask something like “let this agent use the report-formatting skill” — a “Skill attach proposed” card appears with the closest-matching workspace-shared skill preselected.

• If the preselected skill isn’t the one you meant, choose another from the card’s “Pick the skill to attach” list
• “Attach” saves it right away; it takes effect in new chats with that agent. “Dismiss” passes on it
• Only workspace-shared skills can be attached this way (agent-specific skills belong to a single agent)

Importing a SKILL.md from chat

An existing SKILL.md file can be registered without opening the Skills screen: attach the file to the conversation and ask the AI to register it as a skill. The AI reads the file and presents the usual suggestion card with the name, description, and body filled in from the file — review and save it like any other suggestion.

When you’ve hit the limit

If you’ve reached the Skill limit, new Skills can’t be saved. The card says so and names the limit (“You’ve reached the skill limit (20).”) — consider updating an existing Skill or deleting ones you no longer need.

You can also ask explicitly in chat: “Turn this procedure into a Skill — I’ll want it again next time.” The AI will draft the body from the conversation.