Skills
Skills are named Surfaice workflows — reusable Hugo playbooks for lease admin, store development, estimating, and reporting.
A skill is a packaged workflow Hugo can run repeatedly: instructions, tools, inputs, and expected outputs tailored to your team's process.
Your workspace includes the catalog provisioned for your organization — typically dozens of skills for lease and store-development work — plus any company-wide or user-authored skills. The broader Surfaice platform maintains a large skill library across customer templates; not every skill in these docs appears in every workspace.
New to Surfaice? Read What is Surfaice? first, then return here before browsing the Skills library.
Browse skills by domain: lease, store development, estimating, reporting, apps, and admin.
Quick examples
| Domain | Example skills |
|---|---|
| Lease | lease-abstraction, cam-dispute-detector, key-dates-digest, cotenancy-violation-detector |
| Store development | construction-pipeline, permits, projects-behind-schedule, punch-list-status |
| Estimating | bid-tracking, bid-leveler, scope-sheet-reader, buyout |
| Reporting | daily-briefing, report-portfolio-overview, project-deep-dive, financials |
| Apps | document-abstraction (via lease-abstraction), punch_walk |
Browse the full catalog: Skills library. Availability depends on your workspace template.
Skills vs Apps vs chat
| Freeform chat | Skill | App | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Ad-hoc questions | Repeatable workflows | Validated field-by-field review |
| Examples | "What's blocking store 1842?" | permits-delayed | document-abstraction, punch_walk |
| Output | Conversational answer | Tables, exports, drafts | Panel UI with accept/reject |
How to run a skill
- Open the Skills panel (Built-in, Company-wide, Workspace, or Catalog tabs)
- Click a skill, use
/skill-namein chat, or describe the task naturally - Provide inputs — store number, date range, PDF attachment
- Review output and save only what you accept
Related
- Skills library
- Apps & automations
- Chat with Hugo
- Marketing Skills Hub: surfaice.pro/library