Creating Custom Skills

Custom Skills are a great way to use Highlight’s help in completing repetitive tasks.

You can create a skill two ways:

• Ask in chat. Describe what you want, or say "turn this into a skill," and Highlight builds it. Chat is often the fastest path. Work through the task with Highlight first, then save the result as a skill.

• From Settings. Open Skills and create one directly. This is a more advanced method, and you should use this approach if you're comfortable writing detailed instructions yourself.

Customize Skill Settings

When you create a Custom Skill, there are a number of settings you can adjust that tailor the skill to your needs

• Run during meetings will surface the skill during your meetings and will trigger based on the events or customization settings that you add to the Skill.

• Suggest if chat is a setting that enables you to invoke the Skill within the chat window by utilizing the @ or / (slash) command + the skill name.

• Time of day creates a recurring skill that runs on a set schedule: day(s) of the week + time of day

• Escalate to an advanced model runs the Skill on a more capable AI model.

• Enabling App Events can trigger the skill to run based on integrations from third party apps such as Slack, Linear or Notion.

See also: 📄 Turn a chat into a skill