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# Key Concepts

Learn the key terms used in Skills and Skill Builder.

### Required Editions

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d61778e67 ">To create, edit, run, and share your own skills in Skill Builder:</td>

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            <p>AI Skill User permission set</p>
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              <li>Skill User</li>

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d61778e67 ">To create, edit, run, and share all skills in Skill Builder:</td>

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            <p>AI Skill Manager permission set</p>
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              <li>Skill User</li>

              <li>Skill Manager</li>

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## Skill

A reusable workflow that can generate text and run agent actions as part of a repeatable task. A skill isn’t an Agentforce subagent. Skills are private by default until shared.

## Skill Builder

The editor where you create, configure, and publish skills. Open it from Agentforce Studio, the App Launcher, or Coworker.

## My Skills

The list of skills a user can run in Coworker. A skill is added to My Skills when the user creates it or the skill is added from Browse.

## Browse

The list of skills the user can access that aren’t in My Skills. From Browse, click **Add to My Skills**. Removing a skill from My Skills doesn’t revoke access.

## Instructions

Markdown that tells the AI model what to do, in what order, and how to use agent actions and context. The canvas uses Objective, Steps, Guidelines, Data & Tools, and Examples in the instructions.

## Tools

In Skill Builder, under Resources, Tools lists agent actions a skill can run. Examples include Record Query, Record Update, Record Create, Send Email, and Send Slack Message.

## Context

The reference data that grounds the skill in your org, such as a competitor list, a policy document, or a mapping table. To add context in the instructions canvas, click **Insert Resource** or type `@`.

## Skill Version

A snapshot of the skill’s instructions and configuration. The published version is the one that runs.

## Publish and Unpublish

Publish a version to run a skill. Unpublish a skill to stop the skill from being run. Unpublishing removes the skill from My Skills, but doesn’t remove access to the skill.

## Standard Skill and Custom Skill

A standard skill is provided by Salesforce. A custom skill is created in the org.

## Skills vs. Prompt Templates

A prompt template gathers inputs, resolves merge fields, and sends one completed prompt to the AI model. A skill reads instructions, collects inputs, can run agent actions, and returns a result.

Use a prompt template when you need one response, such as a summary, email draft, or field value. Use a skill when you need a multi-step task that can run agent actions.

#### See Also

- [Enable Skill Builder](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.skill_builder_enable.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Assign the AI Skill User or AI Skill Manager permission set to access Skill Builder in the App Launcher, Agentforce Studio, and Agentforce Coworker.")
- [Create a Skill in Agentforce Studio](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.skill_builder_create_studio.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Create a skill in Skill Builder, and then add instructions and context.")
- [Create a Skill from Coworker](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.skill_builder_create_coworker.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Create a skill from Agentforce Coworker by describing it in Ask mode.")