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

# Skills

<a href="/release-notes/4.60"><Badge className="version-badge" color="blue">Updated in 4.60</Badge></a>

<Warning>
  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.
</Warning>

*Skills* are specific abilities that human agents possess, such as language proficiency and expertise in particular domains.

Only users with the Administrator and Supervisor roles can configure and assign skills.

## Create Skills

To create a skill, follow these steps:

1. In the Live Agent interface, go to **Settings > Skills**.
2. In the upper-right corner, click **Add Skill**.
3. 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.
4. 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:

1. In the Live Agent interface, go to **Settings > Agents**.
2. In the row with the agent, click **Skills**.
3. In the **Skills** window, click **Add skill**.
4. Select a skill type and its value. You can add multiple skills.
5. 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 <img src="https://mintcdn.com/cognigy-15abf2ba/Aanuo4ANeXDMmSVF/_assets/icons/black-and-white/cross.svg?fit=max&auto=format&n=Aanuo4ANeXDMmSVF&q=85&s=4224b6f4fcf8b8d535f94fba98c0eb47" alt="cross" width="16" height="16" data-path="_assets/icons/black-and-white/cross.svg" /> 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](/ai/agents/develop/node-reference/service/handover-to-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](/ai/agents/develop/node-reference/service/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.