Getting started with Parallax Skills

Parallax Skills is a gallery where you save instructions for AI as skills, and find and add skills other people have made. It lives at skills.parallax.kr, and the skills you add are used in parallax.kr chat.

What are skills and skill bundles?

A skill is a set of instructions in SKILL.md format. It has three parts: a name, when to use it (the description), and the instructions (the body).

What gets listed in the gallery is a skill bundle. Each bundle holds one or more skills, and its card shows "N skills". Adding and turning skills on or off also happen per bundle.

Categories (Research, Writing, Image, Slides, Video, Web page) are labels that make browsing easier. A category does not change the chat model or tools.

How do I add a skill?

1. On skills.parallax.kr, find a bundle from the lists on the home page, Explore, or the search box.
2. On the bundle page, click Add.
3. The bundle is turned on right away and is used from your next chat.

You need to be signed in to add a bundle. Use the same Parallax account you use on parallax.kr. If you click Add while signed out, you are brought back to the same bundle page after signing in so you can finish adding it.

The bundle page shows the description and the full instructions of every skill in it, so you can check what a skill does before adding it.

Where do I manage the skills I added?

You can manage them in two places.

• skills.parallax.kr: in the account menu, go to My skills > Installed. For each bundle you can turn it on or off, Uninstall it, or Open in chat.
• parallax.kr chat: the Skills menu in the message box lists the bundles you added and lets you turn them on or off. Browse gallery takes you to skills.parallax.kr.

Turning a bundle on or off applies from your next message. If you just want to pause a bundle for a while, turn it off instead of uninstalling it, and turn it back on later.

How are skills used in chat?

Every skill in the bundles you have turned on is a candidate in all of your chats. You do not need to type a command or pick a skill.

The chat model reads the "when to use it" description of each skill. When one fits your request, it loads that skill's instructions and follows them. When none fits, it answers as usual. The model decides whether to use a skill, so the more specific you are about the task, the more likely the right skill is used.

How can I tell a skill was used?

When a skill was loaded, a Skills used label with the skill name appears above the answer. Clicking the name opens the bundle page that contains the skill. The label stays after you refresh or reopen the conversation.

Can I use skills in every chat?

Skills work in regular chat while you are signed in. They are not applied in these cases:

• When a Perplexity model is selected (the Skills menu in the message box shows a notice)
• Cross Check
• Team mode
• Workflow generation requests
• Image generation requests

Is there a limit on how many skills I can turn on?

You can turn on up to 100 skills in total across all the bundles you have turned on. The count is the number of skills inside the bundles, not the number of bundles.

If adding or turning on a bundle would take the total over 100, it is not added or turned on. Turn off a bundle you rarely use first.

Do skills cost anything?

Every skill in the gallery is free, and there is no separate charge for using skills. Chat uses chat credits as usual.

That said, the list of skills you have turned on and any instructions that get loaded are part of what the model reads as input. So having many skills turned on, or loading long instructions, can increase your credit usage. We recommend turning off bundles you are not using. For more on credits, see Plans and credits.

If you need help

Open a support request and choose Skills as the service. Include the address of the bundle page (skills.parallax.kr/s/...), the chat model you used, roughly when the problem happened, and any message shown on screen so we can look into it quickly.