Sharing Skills

Promoting a Personal Skill to a Shared team Skill

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Promote a Personal Skill to a Shared Skill for your team
Review ownership and instructions before a Skill becomes shared

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Glean Assistant Skills (User Guide) · 10 min

Day 5 Lab

Choose a Personal Skill that's proven useful and stable.
Review its instructions for anything personal, hard-coded, or stale.
Assign an owner who will maintain it after it's shared.
Promote it from Personal to Shared scope for your team.
Have a teammate run it and confirm it behaves the same for them.

Working Example: Personal → Shared, With a Review Gate

A Personal Skill is creator-only; a Shared Skill is available to your team. Promotion is a governance step, not just a toggle — review the instructions and name an owner before it goes wide. Verified against assistant_skills.

Before:  Skill "Weekly status digest"   scope: Personal (only @you)

Review gate (do this first):
  □ Instructions free of personal assumptions ("my Jira" → "the requester's Jira")
  □ No hard-coded names or one-off paths
  □ Owner assigned: @team-lead  (who maintains it going forward)
  □ Description still accurate for a team audience

After:   Skill "Weekly status digest"   scope: Shared (team: Platform)

Sharing widens both the benefit and the blast radius: everyone now relies on this Skill, so a vague instruction or a stale assumption affects the whole team. The review and a named owner are how you keep a Shared Skill trustworthy over time.

Check for understanding

Why review a Skill's instructions and ownership before sharing it with a team?

Check yourself

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

1. What is a Glean Assistant Skill?

2. Who can invoke a Personal Skill?

3. When Glean auto-selects a Skill, what does it primarily match against?

4. Which gives you deterministic control over which Skill runs?

5. A Skill keeps firing on the wrong requests. What is the most likely fix?

Pass threshold 80% · week 5 quiz

In 10 seconds

“A Personal Skill helps you. A Shared Skill helps your team — but only after a review. Check the instructions and name an owner before you promote it.”

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Skill Quality and Iteration

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