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What Are Skill Templates

Skill Templates are ready-made Skills that nuwacom provides as a browsable collection covering common use cases. Each template ships with a predefined structure, tone, and rule set, so a working Skill is available immediately instead of being written from scratch. Templates are organized by business area, which makes it fast to locate a fit and then adapt it to specific requirements. Templates are best suited for a quick start: a matching template delivers a tested foundation that only needs to be aligned with the target process. Every Skill created from a template remains fully configurable in the code editor after creation.

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Browsing the Template Library

The template library opens from the Skills page via the “Browse Templates” button. Templates are organized into categories in the left sidebar: All Templates, HR, Legal, Product, Sales, Support, and Writing. Selecting a category filters the available templates, and the search field locates a specific one.

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Skill Templates

The library provides two ways to narrow down the selection:
  • Search: Use the Search templates field to find templates by name or description.
  • Categories: Filter by business area to focus on relevant templates. Available categories include HR, Legal, Product, Sales, Support, and Writing.
Representative templates per category:
  1. HR: HR Policy Handbook, Interview Guidelines, Job Ad Structure & Tone
  2. Legal: Compliance Review Skill, Legal Clause Library, Privacy Guidelines Skill
  3. Product: Product Glossary, Product Requirements Skill, Research Synthesis Skill
  4. Sales: Customer & ICP Profile, Pricing & Packaging, Sales Playbook
  5. Support: Escalation Policy, Support Response
  6. Writing: Brand Kit Guardian, Tone of Voice, Writing Style Guide

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Template Details

Selecting a template card opens the Create a New Skill preview. It displays the template name, a Skill icon, and a natural-language prompt field for describing changes, along with the full configuration under two building blocks: Description and Instructions. The Create Skill button adds a copy of this configuration to the workspace. The HR Policy Handbook Skill template illustrates how these building blocks fit together.

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Description

The Description defines what the Skill covers and when it applies. In the HR Policy Handbook Skill, it states that the Skill holds HR rules, policies, benefits, absences, onboarding, and employee communications, and lists the inquiries that activate it, even when HR is not named explicitly.

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Instructions

The Instructions define how the Skill retrieves, interprets, and communicates its content. In the HR Policy Handbook Skill, they are structured into named sections:
  • Purpose: Grounds every response strictly in official documentation, with no invented policy details.
  • KB-Grounding: Sets the retrieval behavior, including targeted queries, fallback synonyms, and the rule not to answer without relevant content.
  • Tool Rules: Maps each situation to the correct tool and excludes non-authoritative sources such as Web Search.
  • Process: Breaks the task into numbered steps, from request to response, gap handling, and next step.
  • Scope & Boundaries: Separates in-scope tasks from situations that are always escalated.
  • Output Format: Provides ready-made response structures for policy answers, onboarding, and communications.
  • Tone & Style: Sets the language register as clear, plain, professional, and consistent with source terminology.
This structure shows the recommended pattern: a purpose that frames the Skill’s mandate, followed by explicit, rule-based instructions that govern retrieval, tool usage, scope, and output.

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How to Create a Skill from a Template

  1. Open “Browse Templates” on the Skills page.
  2. Select a category and choose a template, for example HR Policy Handbook, then review its description and instructions in the preview.
  3. Customize the copy in the code editor. The SKILL.md editor refines the instructions, the description field defines what the Skill covers, and the files panel manages assets such as reference documents, logos, or fonts.
  4. Select Save.
A copy of the template is added to the Skill library, for example “Copy of HR Policy Handbook”, and is private by default. The created Skill is fully editable and independent of the original template. Changes to it do not affect the template or any other Skill created from it.
Tip*: A copy inherits the full template configuration, so the fastest path to a working Skill is to create it from the closest match and refine only the instructions and assets that differ from the target process.*

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Customizing Your Copy

Once created, the Skill is fully configurable in the code editor. Each element maps to what can be changed:
  • Adjust instructions: The code editor refines the instructions in structure, tone, or rules.
  • Add new file: Individual files such as reference documents, logos, or fonts are attached directly to the Skill.
  • Add new folder: Folders keep bundled assets organized within the Skill.
  • Upload file: Assets from the local system are uploaded into the Skill.
  • Share, activate, and download: The Skill can be shared with the team to standardize outputs, set active via the toggle to make it available in chat, and exported as a file for backup or reuse elsewhere.

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FAQ

No. The copy is fully independent, so changes never affect the template or other Skills made from it. It appears as a copy, for example Copy of HR Policy Handbook, and is private by default.
Yes. It stays fully configurable in the code editor: the SKILL.md editor refines the instructions, the description field defines what the Skill covers, and the files panel manages assets.
Search finds templates by name or description, and the category sidebar filters by business area — HR, Legal, Product, Sales, Support, and Writing.