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What are Workleap Agent skills and how do I personalize them?

Skills are the tasks the Workleap Agent does, like drafting reviews and goals. Personalize them so the agent works your organization’s way.

The Workleap Agent drafts performance reviews, goals and replies to employee feedback for your managers. Each of these tasks is a skill. Every skill comes with Workleap’s instructions for doing the task well.


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As an administrator, you can personalize each skill so the agent does the task your organization’s way. For example, give it your performance review format, or tell it to tie every goal to your company priorities. You set it once, and your managers get drafts that already follow your standards.

Who can do this: Organization administrators personalize skills for the whole organization. Executives can’t open these settings. Managers and employees can add templates for their own use.


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Three ways to personalize a skill

Each skill has a Personalize section with three parts.

Part

What it does

Example

Your own template

The instructions the agent follows to do the task: what to include, in what order and in what tone. Make yours the default, and the agent uses it every time a manager asks for that task.

Your company’s review format

Organization guidance

Rules the agent always follows for that skill, whatever template it uses. Use it for the rules that never change.

“Tie every goal to one of our three company priorities.”

Personal templates

Managers and employees create templates for their own use. Your organization guidance still applies to them. On by default.

A feedback reply in their team’s tone

Every skill also comes with templates from Workleap. A manager can ask for another template by name.


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What happens when a manager asks

Example: A manager asks the agent: “Draft Sam’s performance review.”

  1. The agent uses the Performance review skill.

  2. It follows one template: the one the manager asks for by name, or else your default.

  3. It writes the draft with that template, your organization guidance and Workleap’s instructions for the skill.


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Setup

Administrators: personalize a skill for your organization

  1. Click your avatar (top right), then Organization settings > Agent > Skills.

  2. Click a skill, for example Performance review.

  3. To add a template, click Edit a copy on a Workleap template to start from it, or click New template to start from scratch. Enter a Name and the Agent instructions, then click Create template.

  4. To make your template the default, expand it and click Make default.

  5. To add rules, write them under Organization guidance, then click Save changes.

  6. To stop people from creating their own templates, go to Member access and turn off Allow people to create their own templates for this skill.

Managers and employees: create your own template

If your administrator allows it, you can add templates for your own use. Nobody else sees them.

  1. Click your avatar, then Personal settings > Agent > Skills, and click the skill.

  2. Click Edit a copy or New template. Enter a Name and the Agent instructions, then click Create template.

  3. To use it, name it in your request: “Reply with my Team tone template.”

You can also create a template from a conversation. Ask “Save this reply as my Team tone template.”, then click Save template on the card the agent shows.


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Tips for good templates and guidance

  • Put the format in the template and the rules in guidance. When a rule changes, you change it in one place.

  • Be specific. “Two to three sentences, because managers skim” changes the result. “Be thoughtful” does not.

  • Start with the skill your managers use most. When a draft isn’t right, add a rule.


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Settings for each feature


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Good to know

Can I change a Workleap template?

No. Workleap templates can’t be changed. Click Edit a copy to start from one.

Can I add personal guidance?

No. There is no personal guidance. To change how the agent works with you in every skill, set your agent preferences.

What happens when personal templates are turned off?

People see “Your organization hasn’t enabled personal templates for this skill.” The agent stops using their templates for that skill. It doesn’t delete them.

Is this the Workleap Skills product?

No. Skills are what the Workleap Agent can do. They are not related to the Workleap Skills product.

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