Skill Extraction
This specialist runs in chat and as a node you can add to a workflow for repeatable, scheduled runs. See the Agent Catalog for how the two relate.
Overview
Skills are often buried inside documents — a competency framework, a training catalog, a set of job descriptions. Skill Extraction reads a document you attach and pulls the skills out into a clean, structured list you can review, share, or import.
Ellie captures one row per skill, along with the details it finds: what the skill is, how it's categorized, its level, related skills, and where it applies. It extracts only what the document actually says, keeps the original wording, and leaves a field blank rather than guessing when the information isn't there.
What you'll need
- A document that describes skills — a competency framework, training catalog, job description, or similar. Word, PDF, spreadsheet, or plain text all work.
- Attach the file to your message or add it as context. See Using files in chat and workflows for how attachments work.
How to ask
Attach the document, then tell Ellie what to pull out.
Extract everything:
Extract the skills from the attached competency framework into a table.
Focus on specific details:
Pull every skill in this training catalog, with its category and level
where the document states them.
What you get
A downloadable spreadsheet with one row per skill and columns for:
- Title and description
- Category and subcategory
- Level
- Prerequisites and related skills
- Applications, industry, and references
Fields are left blank where the document doesn't provide them, so you can see at a glance what's missing.
Tips
- The clearer the source structure (headings, bullets, tables), the cleaner the result.
- Nothing is invented — a blank field means the detail wasn't in the document.
- For a very large library, split it across a few documents and run each in turn.
- Review and tidy the list before importing it, or feed it straight into Skill Harmonization to remove duplicates.