Skills

You can create skill recipes to define workflows for your genie. This gives your genie different skills, such as starting a workflow or returning a response. Skills equip your genie with a comprehensive toolset to take action and respond to end users.

Genies support skills across most applications and allows access to your workflows as custom skills. The skills component provides the following capabilities:

• Add or modify skill sets related to apps and data sources
• Create customized skills

Genies can interpret text within document files and use this content in skill recipes using the File input parameter type. This input passes file data to the recipe as a datapill.

Refer to Create a skill recipe with a File input parameter for more information.

Skills use Verified user access to allow each end user to authenticate with their own credentials when a genie skill recipe runs. This ensures that the skill recipe performs actions using the individual user's identity and permissions.

Your end users have the ability to manage their runtime user connection through the genie chat interface.

Genie skill recipes can consume MCP servers. This enables you to access external APIs and integrate with third-party tools without custom skill development. Skill recipes can call Custom MCP servers and common provider MCP servers.

You can share your skill recipes in the Community Library.

Genie skills

Getting started with skills

Refer to Create a genie manually for complete steps on how to create a genie with a job description, AI model, chat interface, knowledge base, knowledge base recipe, and skills.

Complete the following steps to add a skill recipe:

1

Sign in to Workato.

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Go to AI Hub.

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Click Genies.

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Click Create to build your own genie.

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Enter a request or goal for your genie in the What would you like your genie to help with? field.

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Use the Save genie in drop-down menu to select a location for your genie.

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Click Start building. The genie Build page displays.

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Go to the Skills field and click + Add to open the configuration page.

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Select Skill.

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Select New skill.

Select New skill

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Click Create new skill.

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Provide a name for your skill in the Name field.

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Use the Location drop-down menu to select a location for your skill recipe.

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Click Start building. The recipe editor opens with the Start workflow trigger and Return response action automatically selected.

You've created a new skill for your genie. Refer to Create a new skill for steps on how to configure your skill recipe.

More resources

• Add existing skills to a genie
• Add MCP server skills to a genie