Introducing AIDA Skills: Extending AIDA with Domain Expertise

AIDA Skills is a new feature in private preview designed to extend the analytical capabilities of the AIDA platform by allowing users to incorporate domain-specific knowledge into their workflows through reusable, parameterized Skills. These Skills are human-readable files created in the open agentskills.io format and can include SQL statements for data operations. Users can author Skills either through a structured form within AIDA or by uploading a pre-written SKILL.md file, with both methods resulting in the same artifact. AIDA matches user queries with the appropriate Skills based on natural-language descriptions and example prompts, allowing for both implicit and explicit invocation. Skills execute under the user's permissions to ensure security and are treated as untrusted input to prevent prompt injection. The private preview aims to validate the Skill format, matching loop, and safety model, with future enhancements planned for AI-assisted authoring and governance. Skills empower users by enabling them to address specific business needs without waiting for new product releases, positioning AIDA as more than a chatbot but as a federated query engine enriched by customer-authored domain knowledge.