Updated in 4.60
Live Agent has been put in maintenance mode. The product will continue to be maintained in the foreseeable future. Users can continue to fully rely on Live Agent being available. In future releases, only security updates and bug fixes will be provided; no new features will be released.
Create Skills
To create a skill, follow these steps:
- In the Live Agent interface, go to Settings > Skills.
- In the upper-right corner, click Add Skill.
- In the Add Skill window, fill in the following fields:
- Type — select one of the following types:
- Language — a skill that refers to language expertise.
- Skill — a skill that refers to specific knowledge.
- Name — specify a unique name that reflects the skill. For example,
English, Spanish, German for the Language type, or specific skills like IT, HR, Customer Service for the Skills type.
- Click Submit.
The skill will appear in the list on the Skills page.
Afterward, you can edit or delete the added skill.
Assign Skills
To assign a skill to a human agent, follow these steps:
- In the Live Agent interface, go to Settings > Agents.
- In the row with the agent, click Skills.
- In the Skills window, click Add skill.
- Select a skill type and its value. You can add multiple skills.
- Click Add Skills.
The skills will appear in the Skills column of the row with the agent.
If you want to remove a skill from the row with the agent, open the Skills window and click 
on the right side of the selected skill.
Apply Skills
To start using skills in conversation routing, you need to specify your created skills in the Handover to Human Agent Node.
If you want to assign conversations only to agents relevant to their skills, in addition to the Handover to Human Agent Node, you can add the Check Agent Availability Node.
In this case, if a relevant agent is not found, you can notify the user. This Node checks only online agents with the relevant skills and performs routing. 
