Consuming Built-in Glean Skills

Reusable instruction + tool packages you can invoke

You'll be able to

Explain what a built-in Glean Skill packages and when to reach for one
Invoke a Skill and read back what it did so the result is reviewable

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Glean Assistant Skills (User Guide) · 10 min

Day 1 Lab

Open the Skills list and pick one built-in Skill that matches a task you do often.
Read its description — note the instructions and the tools it bundles.
Invoke it with one concrete input.
Read back the steps it ran and the sources it touched.
Note one task you repeat that a Skill could replace.

Working Example: Invoking a Built-in Skill

A built-in Skill is a named package of instructions plus the tools to carry them out — you invoke it instead of re-prompting the workflow each time. Verified against assistant_skills.

You:    @Skill "Meeting Prep" — prep me for the Acme renewal call

Skill bundles:
  • Instructions: gather context, summarize, list open risks
  • Tools:        enterprise search, calendar lookup, CRM read

Skill runs:
  1. Found the calendar event → attendees, time
  2. Searched: app:salesforce account:Acme  → open opportunity, stage
  3. Searched: Acme renewal                 → last QBR doc, 2 support tickets
  4. Returned: one-page brief + 3 open risks, each with a source link

The win is reuse: the instructions and the tool set travel with the Skill, so the next person who invokes "Meeting Prep" gets the same workflow without rebuilding the prompt. Verified against assistant_skills.

Check for understanding

What does a built-in Skill bundle together that a plain prompt does not?

Check yourself

Pick an answer — you'll see if it's right and why.

1. What does a built-in Glean Skill bundle together?

2. In a busy Slack channel, which facet pair pins a message fastest?

3. What does `app:jira project:ATLAS priority:high assignee:@raj` return?

4. Why does a Confluence `label:` facet help you find the canonical page?

5. Which Salesforce facets together build a 'large deals closing this quarter' shortlist?

Pass threshold 80% · week 3 quiz

In 10 seconds

“A Glean Skill bundles instructions plus the tools to act — so you invoke a ready-made workflow instead of re-prompting it. Pick one, pass your input, read the steps it ran. Reuse, not retype.”

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