Skills
| Where | BORO panel → Settings (gear) → Skills (Умения). Also BORO panel → Add (+) in the message field → Skills. |
|---|---|
| Who can | Every member of the company sees the list. Creating a skill needs the company permission BORO Skills (author) (BORO умения (автор)) at Edit; the system roles Company owner and Manager have it. Which built-in skills are available depends on your plan. |
| Related | What BORO can do, Memory, Roles, Permission reference |
What a skill does
When your message matches a skill's topic, BORO loads the skill's instructions together with the tools the skill needs, and follows the procedure. You see this in the conversation as a quiet row "Using skill: {name}" (Използвам умение: {name}). A skill makes BORO more reliable on procedures with many steps, and it lets your company fix "the way we do it here": which markup to use, how to name categories, what to check before submitting an offer.
- Your request.
- The quiet row "Using skill: Pricing check".
- The tool calls and the answer that follow the skill's steps: each price compared with the last two projects, in a table.
A skill is different from a memory. A memory is one short fact ("our standard profit on labor is 15%"); a skill is a procedure of several steps. See Memory.
Built-in skills
Built-in skills carry the badge Built-in (Вградено). They are always on and cannot be edited or deleted. BuildColab maintains them; the list in your BORO Settings can differ by plan. At the time of writing they are:
| Skill (as shown) | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Структура на оферта (Offer structure) | Building an offer BoQ from scratch: categories by part of the building and type of work, positions with quantities and units. |
| Ценообразуване на оферта (Offer pricing) | Pricing positions with template history or from scratch, resource analyses and profit, asking you where a decision is needed. |
| КСС конвенции (BoQ conventions) | Naming and structure conventions for BoQs in the company: versions, BoQ types, currencies. |
| Изчистване на дублирани шаблони (Clean up duplicate templates) | Finding and merging duplicate task templates without losing price history. |
| Абонамент и кредити (Subscription and credits) | Questions about the plan, BORO credits and invoices. |
| Файлов мениджър (File manager) | Finding, reading, creating and editing files, uploading and migrating whole folders, comments, sharing, copying. |
| Строителен график (Construction schedule) | Reviewing the Gantt, dependencies and coverage, reporting progress, changing dates. |
| Обвързване на КСС с график (Linking the BoQ to the schedule) | Matching BoQ positions to the activities of an imported schedule: review by confidence, apply, handle leftovers. |
| Изграждане на график (Building a schedule) | Creating a schedule and its categories, groups, milestones and dependencies. |
| Договори (Contracts) | Contracts of a project: review, drafts, proposals, signing, change orders and history. |
| Актове за плащане (Payment applications) | Reviewing payment applications on the project's contracts: status, amounts, periods. |
| Попълване на акт по документ (Fill a payment application from a document) | Filling the quantities of a draft payment application from a protocol, Excel, PDF or photo you attach. The result is always a draft for you to check. |
| Изходящи запитвания за оферти (Outgoing offer requests) | Creating and sending offer requests, comparing and awarding offers, and the contracting schedule. |
| Входящи запитвания за оферти (Incoming offer requests) | Handling a received offer request end to end: review, accept or decline, price, submit. |
| Бюджет и финанси (Budget and finance) | Budget against executed work, cost breakdown, approved payments. |
| Работен календар (Work calendar) | Working days and holidays of a project. |
| Създаване на умения (Creating skills) | Turning work you repeat into a new skill (as a draft). |
Built-in skill names are shown in Bulgarian. You do not need to call a skill by name; describe the work and BORO picks the skill.
Your company's own skills
Write your own skill when your company does a job in a specific way that BORO should follow every time, for example: "How we prepare an offer for a residential building", "Checks before we approve a subcontractor's payment application", "How we name BoQ categories". Own skills appear in the same list without the Built-in badge, with the buttons Disable/Enable (Изключи/Включи), Edit (Редактирай) and a bin to delete.
How to add a skill
- Open the BORO panel, click Settings (gear), then Skills (Умения). The page says "Procedural knowledge BORO loads on demand — how your company works."
- Click Add skill (Добави умение).
- Fill in Name (Име), Short description — when it is used (Кратко описание — кога се използва) and Instructions (Инструкции).
- Click Save (Запази). The skill is created switched on, and BORO can use it from the next message.
| Field | Required | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Yes | 2 to 120 characters. Must differ from every built-in skill and from your other skills. |
| Short description — when it is used | Yes | 5 to 300 characters. Say when BORO should use the skill; BORO matches your requests against it. |
| Instructions | Yes | 10 to 20,000 characters. Short, ordered steps in the imperative. |
| Number of skills | At most 50 own skills per company. |
- Skills in the left menu of BORO Settings.
- A built-in skill with the badge Built-in.
- A company skill (here "Pricing check") with Disable, Edit and the bin.
- Add skill opens the form with Name, Short description — when it is used and Instructions.
How to edit, switch off or delete a skill
- Edit (Редактирай) opens the same form with the current text; change it and click Save.
- Disable (Изключи) keeps the skill but BORO stops using it; Enable (Включи) turns it back on.
- The bin deletes the skill at once, without a further question. It cannot be restored.
If saving fails, the page shows the reason, for example "A skill named "…" already exists." or the length rule that was broken, or "Failed to save skill".
How to let BORO write a skill for you
- After BORO has done a job well, ask: "Save this as a skill" or "Turn this procedure into a skill".
- BORO proposes the name, description and instructions and shows an approval card. Approve it.
- The skill is created switched off as a draft. Open BORO Settings → Skills, check it, edit it if needed, and click Enable.
BORO can create a skill only for someone with the permission BORO Skills (author); otherwise it tells you that the permission is missing.
Common questions
Why does saving a new skill fail?
Check the length rules in the table above and that the name is not already used. If they are met, you probably lack the permission: creating skills needs the permission BORO Skills (author) at Edit in your company role. Company owners and Managers have it by default. Ask your administrator; see Roles.
Can I change a built-in skill?
No. Built-in skills cannot be edited, switched off or deleted. Write your own skill for your company's variant; BORO then follows your instructions where they apply.
How do I know BORO used my skill?
A row "Using skill: {name}" appears in the conversation. If BORO does not pick it up, make the Short description more specific to the requests you type, or ask BORO directly to use the skill by name.
Who sees our company's skills?
Everyone in your company, and BORO uses them for everyone in the company. Other companies never see them.
BORO created a skill but it does nothing.
Skills that BORO writes are created switched off. Open BORO Settings → Skills and click Enable.
Why do I see fewer built-in skills than a colleague in another company?
The set of built-in skills depends on the plan. See Subscription, plans and billing.