Skills ready to add to your AI Teammates

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Hi Asana Community,

We are excited to announce Skills are now available for AI Teammates! AI Teammates now have access to an expanded set of options in the Asana Teammates Gallery and can utilize specialized capabilities from the Asana Skills Library. That means you can start with a Teammate built for a role or workflow, then tailor it to fit how your team actually works.

What is an AI Teammate “Skill”?

Think of a Skill as a specific capability.

A Skill is a self-contained module of guidance and tooling that a Teammate loads when a specific task requires it. It defines the input, logic, and output for one well-scoped job.

  • Granularity: It acts as a specific tool required for a job to be done and is named like an action.

  • Examples: Multi-Channel Copy Generation, KPI Dashboard Design, or SOP & Safety Documentation.

  • One Skill, Many Teammates: Skills are highly reusable. For instance, a general skill like PowerPoint Deck Generation can be shared across many different Teammates.

You can add Skills from the Library, create your own, or upload your own instructions to build a custom Skill. You can also attach reference materials so your Teammate can work from the context your team already uses, instead of starting from a blank setup every time.

This update also builds on the Teammates Gallery that already exists today by expanding the available Teammates and giving people more ready-to-use starting points. And while Skills are not automated work triggers, a Teammate can automatically choose which Skill to use based on the task at hand, so the setup stays flexible without asking people to manage every step manually.

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For more details and instructions, please have a look at our Help Center article.

Let us know if you have any questions! We’d love to hear which AI Teammate or Skill you want to start with first.

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After testing it, I believe they have 2 major flaws:

  • you can create your own Skill, but can’t add them to the Library → so you can’t share them with another teammate
  • when using existing skills from the library, you are creating a copy → you can’t standardise

So the only thing it brings is the ability to store your prompt in small non-shareable chunks. Pretty disappointed :frowning: but hopefully they get better soon!

@Emily_Roman anything on the roadmap you can share about Skills?

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You mean you can’t, right?

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Yes thanks :person_facepalming: fixed
do you share my frustration? :grimacing:

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@Bastien_Siebman Allow me to add to your list of flaws:

  • You can import instructions (e. g. skill.md files you have created with Claude), but you can’t export them. If you delete them, they are gone.
  • If you write a fairly long instruction and then accidentally click on the backdrop (next to the modal) everything is gone. Nothing is saved. No pop-up asking for confirmation to “Discard changes”.
  • The search in the Skill Library is not very helpful. If you search for “Meeting” 35 skills are shown, a lot of of them not very relevant to a meeting context.
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