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Creating an assistant

Documentation for the classic Watson Assistant experience has moved. For the most up-to-date version, see Adding more assistants and Renaming or deleting assistants.

Creating an assistant

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

To learn more about what an assistant is first, see Assistants.

Follow these steps to create an assistant:

  1. Click the Assistants icon Assistants menu 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.

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

    See Adding a skill to an assistant.

Assistant limits

The number of assistants you can create depends on your Watson Assistant plan type.

After 30 days of inactivity, an unused assistant in a Lite plan service instance might be deleted to free up space.

You can connect one skill of each type to your assistant. The number of skills you can build differs depending on the plan you have. See Skill limits for more details.

If you want to create an assistant in a different service instance, you can switch to another service instance.

Deleting an assistant

When you delete an assistant, any integrations that you defined for the assistant are automatically deleted also. Skills that you added to the assistant are not deleted.

To delete an assistant, follow these steps:

  1. From the Assistants page, find the assistant that you want to delete.

  2. Click the open and close list of options icon, and then choose Delete. Confirm the deletion.

Renaming an assistant

You can change the name of an assistant and its associated description after you create the assistant.

To rename an assistant, follow these steps:

  1. From the Assistants page, find the assistant that you want to rename.

  2. Click the open and close list of options icon, and then choose Rename.

  3. Edit the name, and then click Save.

Changing the skill that is associated with the assistant

You can add one conversation skill (actions or dialog) and one search skill to an assistant. If you want to change a skill that your assistant is using, you can swap one conversation skill or one search skill for another skill.

  1. From the Assistants page, open the assistant.

  2. Click the open and close list of options icon for the skill you want to swap, and then choose Swap skill.

    To swap the current dialog skill for a different version of the skill, choose Change skill version.

  3. Choose an existing skill to use instead or create a skill.