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5. Using Skills in ChatPro and OUPI Studio
Select and apply your active skills inside the tools that support them so the AI follows your procedures in real tasks.
Skills are reusable written procedures the AI follows when they are relevant to your task — things like how to structure a report, qualify a lead, or review code. You write them once in SkillHub, and the AI applies them every time the situation matches. But a skill sitting in your library does nothing on its own: it must be active to be offered to the AI, and it must be used inside a tool that supports skills. Today, those tools are ChatPro (via the Skills selector in the chat form) and OUPI Studio (via the Skills toggle). When you work in either tool, the AI reads your active skills and picks the relevant one for the task at hand.
Active vs. inactive — Only active skills are offered to the AI. If you deactivate a skill, it stays in your library but the AI ignores it. This is handy for seasonal procedures or skills you are still drafting: bench them without deleting them.
Pinned skills — Pinning a skill gives it priority when the AI assembles its context. Use pinning for the procedures that should always apply to your work, regardless of the specific task. For example, if your team's writing style guide should influence every answer, pin that skill.
In ChatPro: Open a new or existing conversation. In the chat form you will see a Skills selector. Click it to browse your active skills. Select the one(s) relevant to your current task — the AI will follow those procedures in its response.
In OUPI Studio: When configuring an agent or workflow, look for the Skills toggle. Enable the skills that should govern how the agent behaves. The AI reads them and applies the matching procedure.
In both cases, the AI only sees skills you have set to active. If a skill you need does not appear, go back to SkillHub and activate it.
If you edit a skill, active conversations will pick up the new version on their next use — no need to recreate anything. Use this to iterate: run a task, review the output, then refine the skill's steps until the AI nails it.
A good skill has one job, a name that says when to use it, numbered action steps, and a stated expected output. Vague skills like "be professional" have no effect. Operational ones like "structure the answer as: context, options, recommendation" change results immediately.
Open ChatPro and start a new conversation. Click the Skills selector in the chat form and pick one of your active skills. Send a prompt that matches that skill's purpose and check whether the AI follows the procedure. If it doesn't, go to SkillHub, refine the steps, and try again.
Active skills are the bridge between your documented procedures and the AI's behavior. Activate and pin skills in SkillHub, then select them in ChatPro's Skills selector or OUPI Studio's Skills toggle so the AI applies them in real tasks. Remember: inactive skills are invisible to the AI, pinned skills get priority, and edits take effect on the next use. Keep each skill focused on one job with clear, numbered steps for the best results.