> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.parley.so/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Skills

> Codify how your firm works into reusable instructions the whole team can run.

A Skill is your firm's playbook written down once, in a form Parley can run. Your letterhead and signatories. How you build an O-1A support letter. How evidence gets named and foldered. The samples you want a new draft to resemble.

This is where Parley stops being a good assistant and starts being your firm's system. Getting to a finished deliverable through conversation means re-supplying your standards, your format, and your tone every single time, then correcting the draft over several versions. A Skill encodes that once.

## Creating a Skill

Ask the Agent:

> "Create a Skill from this support letter template."

Upload a sample and Parley writes the Skill for you — reading the structure, the tone, and the conventions out of the document rather than making you describe them. Review what it produces and correct it. Skills live under **Knowledge → Skills**.

## Skills worth building first

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Firm-Info">
    Attorney form details, bar numbers, office addresses, letterhead, and signatories, reused across every form and cover letter. This is the one to build first — it touches everything Parley produces.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="One per case type">
    How your firm builds an O-1A, an EB-1A, a PERM. The structure, the argument order, the evidence each section needs.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Reference-Letter-Drafting">
    Upload samples of reference letters for every case type. A Skill can hold multiple folders and subfolders, and Parley searches across them to select the best sample for the situation in front of it.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Document-Naming">
    Instructions for how evidence should be named and organized. Parley can rename documents and reorganize them into folders and subfolders to match.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Using a Skill

Inside a Project, type **/** in the Agent to pull up your firm's Skills and use one in your prompt. Or select **Run Agent** and choose the Skill you want.

Because the Skill supplies the standards, the first draft comes back closer to final — which means fewer correction rounds and fewer credits spent reaching the same quality.

## Personal and published Skills

Every team member can build their own personal Skills. An Admin can review a Member's personal Skill and publish it to the whole organization, which is how one attorney's way of building a petition becomes the firm's.

That review step keeps the firm-wide library curated rather than filling up with everyone's experiments. See [Permissions](/admin/permissions).

<Tip>
  Skills get better with use. When a draft comes back wrong in the same way twice, that's a line missing from the Skill — add it rather than correcting the draft again.
</Tip>

## Getting help building them

We'd rather build your first Skills with you than have you guess. Growth and Enterprise plans include custom Skill development with our team. Reach out at [founders@parley.so](mailto:founders@parley.so).