Discover Existing Skills Before You Build – Automatic Similar Skills Detection
🎯 What is it?
When you create a new skill in Dust, the platform now automatically scans your workspace to detect if similar skills already exist. As you write your skill description, AI analyzes it in real-time and alerts you if it finds potential matches, helping you discover skills you could reuse or build upon.
💡 Why is it useful?
Building skills takes time and effort. Without visibility into what already exists, teams often recreate the same automation multiple times—leading to fragmented knowledge, inconsistent results, and wasted time. This feature helps you maintain a clean, organized skill library by surfacing relevant existing work before you start from scratch.
⚙️ How does it work?
As you type your skill description during creation, Dust's AI compares it against all custom skills in your workspace. If it detects similarities, you'll see a notification suggesting existing skills you might want to review or reuse instead.
✨ Concrete Use Cases
Here's how you could use it:
Avoiding duplicates: You're about to create a skill to "Create GitHub issues from meeting notes." Before you finish, Dust alerts you that "GitHub Issue Creator" already exists in your workspace—built by a colleague last month with the exact same purpose.
Building on existing work: You start creating a skill for "Slack notifications on deal closures." Dust surfaces a similar skill called "CRM to Slack Updates" that you can either reuse directly or modify to fit your specific needs.
📈 Benefits for you
-
Save time: Reuse existing skills instead of building from scratch
-
Maintain consistency: Reduce skill sprawl and duplicate automations across your workspace
-
Discover team knowledge: Find expertise and solutions your colleagues have already created
-
Keep your workspace organized: No more "Create Report v1, v2, v3" cluttering your skill library
🚀 How to access it?
This feature is automatically active for all builders. Simply start creating a new skill as usual—if similar skills exist, Dust will notify you while you're writing the description. No configuration needed.