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title: "Skills"
slug: skills
url: https://invertbio.com/docs/user-guides/skills
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# Skills

## Skills

Your team has established ways of doing RCA, DoE review, regression analysis — methods refined through years of experience. Until now, that knowledge lived in people's heads or buried in SOPs. Now you can capture it directly in Invert as a **Skill**: a reusable set of instructions that tells Assist _how_ to conduct a specific type of analysis, so it works the way your team works.

## How it works

Create a Skill in the **Library** by giving it a name, description, and a body — written in plain text, code, or both. The body is your method: step-by-step procedures, statistical thresholds, decision criteria, preferred chart types, or Python snippets that define how an analysis should be done.

When you're ready to use it, open Assist, type `@` to bring up the mention menu, and select your Skill alongside any runs or reports you want to work with. Assist reads the Skill's instructions and follows your approach — same methodology, every time, regardless of who's running the analysis.

## What can you do with Skills?

-   **Standardize root cause analysis:** Define the steps your team follows for RCA — which metrics to check first, what thresholds flag a deviation, how to structure the final summary — and let anyone on the team run the same investigation
-   **Encode DoE review procedures:** Specify how to evaluate experimental results, which statistical tests to apply, and what constitutes a meaningful difference between conditions
-   **Create reporting templates:** Describe the sections, plots, and key metrics that should appear in a campaign summary or tech transfer package, then let Assist generate it
-   **Capture domain-specific calculations:** Include Python code for custom analyses — growth rate calculations, metabolite ratios, yield corrections — so Assist executes them consistently
-   **Compose multiple Skills:** Reference more than one Skill in a single conversation. Combine a "Growth Phase Analysis" skill with a "Metabolite Profile" skill to build a complete picture

## Example Skills to get started

| Skill name | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Fed-Batch RCA | Walks through a structured root cause analysis: check feeds, DO, pH, temperature, then correlate deviations with titer impact |
| Campaign Summary | Generates a standardized report with VCD/viability overlay, titer bar chart, and key observations per condition |
| Scale-Up Comparison | Compares matched parameters between bench and pilot scale, flags any that fall outside defined equivalence bands |
| Harvest Timing | Evaluates viability trend and titer plateau to recommend optimal harvest window |

_Available now for all Assist-enabled organizations._