Starting a skill

Clicking the skill tile

The user searches the skill in an app tile under the chat bar and clicks the skill tile.

See the video in IBM watsonx Orchestrate documentation.

Typing a phrase

In the chat bar, the user types the phrase that was trained by the builder to start the skill.

See the video in IBM watsonx Orchestrate documentation.

For most skills, the user needs to fill data into inputs. See some specifications in Using skill inputs.

Tasks

A task is a skill or skill flow that the user runs. If the task you requested takes time to run, you receive a suggestion in the chat to work on something else while the requested task runs in the background. You can start more than one skill even if the previous skills you requested are in progress.

You receive notification with the task status and task completion. The notification is specific to the skill set you selected and includes a detailed view of your tasks and their results.

The notification icon is in the upper right of the chat. When you click the notification icon, you can see the following options:

Tasks in progress: Section for details on the ongoing tasks.

The following image shows a task in progress, which is a skill flow that is named Send onboarding content over email.

Results: Section for details on the completed tasks.

The following image shows a result of the Send email skill that was started by the user.

When you click the results in the notification, you are taken to the phrase that started the skill in the chat. So, you click View context to see the results that the skill returned.

Chat history

You can clear the chat history permanently by clicking the broom icon . A window appears to confirm that you want to clear the chat history.

If you have tasks in progress and results, you can stop these tasks and delete the results by selecting Stop the tasks and remove the results when deleting the chat history.

Then, you click the Clear history button.

Parent topic:

→ Using skills