Creating an assistant

Create an assistant with the skills that it needs to address the business goals of your customers.

Follow these steps to create an assistant:

1. Click the Assistants icon .

2. Click Create assistant.

3. Add details about the new assistant:

   • Name: A name no more than 100 characters in length. A name is required.
   • Description: An optional description no more than 200 characters in length.

4. Click Create assistant.

5. Add a skill to the assistant by choosing one of the following skill types to add.

   Note: You can choose to add an existing skill or create a new one.

   • Add Dialog Skill: Uses Watson natural language processing and machine learning technologies to understand user questions and requests, and respond to them with answers that are authored by you.

     When you add a dialog skill from here, you get the development version. If you want to add a specific dialog skill version, add it from the skill's Versions page instead.

   • Add Search Skill: For a given user query, uses the IBM Watson® Discovery service to retrieve information from a data source that you identify and shares any relevant information that it finds as the response to the user.

     You must have Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data installed, and an instance provisioned before you can complete the steps to create a search skill.

   See Creating a skill.