What it does
A skill is a standing instruction for Pluvo: how a metric is calculated, what counts and what does not, a pitfall to steer around, or context about your organization to always keep in mind. The problem it solves is repetition. Instead of explaining in every conversation that revenue means recognized revenue net of refunds, or that intercompany accounts are excluded from rollups, you write it down once and Pluvo applies it going forward. Skills are written by your team. Nothing runs when you save one, it becomes reference knowledge that Pluvo brings into its work.Writing a skill
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Start a new skill
Open Skills and choose New skill. You get an authoring chat on the left and the skill itself on the right.
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Describe what Pluvo should know
Tell the assistant what you want to teach it, such as a definition, a rule, or a pitfall in your data. It interviews you a question at a time and fills in a draft as you go. You can also type directly into the editor yourself.
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Review what it proposes
When the assistant proposes wording, you see what changed and can Accept or Reject it. Nothing is written into your skill without your say.
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Name it and set the scope
Give it a clear Name, then choose when Pluvo should use it. Optional means it is brought in when the question calls for it. Required for everyone means it is applied to every analysis your organization runs.
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Activate it
Choose Activate to put it to work. Drafts are saved as you type but are not used until they are active.
Turning skills on for yourself
Optional skills have an Applied to me switch, and it starts off. An optional skill only affects your work once you switch it on, and even then Pluvo brings it in when it is relevant to the question. Skills set to required for everyone show as Required instead, with no switch, because they always apply.Use Required for everyone sparingly, for genuine organization-wide rules. Requiring too many skills dilutes the quality of what Pluvo produces.
Managing your skills
The Skills list shows each skill with a short excerpt, whether it is Active or a Draft, its scope, whether it is applied to you, and when it was last updated and by whom. You can search skills and filter by status or scope. Click a skill to read it in full and adjust its settings, or use its menu to Edit skill, Deactivate or Activate it, or Delete skill. Deleting is permanent and Pluvo stops using the skill immediately. Skills are shared across your organization, so everyone can see them. Instructions can run up to 10,000 characters, and Markdown formatting is supported.Skills and Library
Skills and your Library both make Pluvo’s answers better, from opposite directions:- Skills are instructions you write about how your organization works.
- Library is structural knowledge about your data that Pluvo proposes and you approve.