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title: Personalize Optimizely Mark
slug: agent-platform/docs/personalize-mark
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createdAt: 2026-08-12T15:37:06.000Z
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Agent Platform includes a pinned chat that helps you get started. Use the **Personalize Mark** pinned chat to connect your tools, build a skill, and run it on your own data. It guides your first session in Mark, so you reach a useful result fast instead of facing an empty chat. Personalize Mark stays pinned to the top of your chat list, and you cannot delete it. Return anytime to continue where you left off or to learn what else Mark can do as features are added.

## What Personalize Mark helps you do

When you open Mark for the first time, you land in conversation with Personalize Mark. It guides you through one focused path:

- **Quick intro** – Tell Mark your marketing role and the apps you work in.
- **Add your connectors** – Connect Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace so Mark works with your real data.
- **Build a skill together** – Turn a task you often repeat into a reusable skill, shaped by a few questions.
- **Watch your skill run** – See your skill run on your real data before you keep or adjust it.

## Start your first session

Personalize Mark is pinned at the top of the Mark chat list.

1. In Mark, click **Mark chat**.
2. Click **Personalize Mark** under **Pinned**.
3. Review the welcome overview. It lists the four parts of the session and the approximate time each one takes.
4. Click **Let's get started!**

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Personalize Mark moves one step at a time. Each step gives you a button or a question, so you know what to do next.

### Share your role and tools

First, Personalize Mark asks for your marketing role and the apps you work in. It saves your answers, so the rest of the session and your future visits fit how you work.

### Connect your tools

Connect Microsoft 365 (Outlook and Teams) or Google Workspace. Connecting first means the skill you build next works with your real content and channels rather than a generic example.

### Build one skill together

Personalize Mark helps you turn a task you repeat into a reusable skill. A skill is a saved set of instructions Mark runs for you on demand. See [Skills overview](docId:1HTjxW2J-ZOkYEZMwnasU) for information.

1. Choose one of the three task ideas suited to your connectors, or describe your own.
2. Answer two or three short questions that shape how the skill works.
3. Choose how you want the output to look.

Personalize Mark then displays the finished skill so you can confirm it before it runs.

### Save and run your skill

Mark saves your skill as a [personal skill](docId:1HTjxW2J-ZOkYEZMwnasU), then runs it on your real data. A personal skill is yours alone and shapes how Mark works for you. After you see the result, Personalize Mark asks whether you want to keep the skill as is or adjust it.

Personalize Mark recaps the steps you just followed so you can repeat them on your own.

## Return visits and Discovery Mode

Because Personalize Mark stays pinned in your chats, you can reopen it whenever you want.

- If you have not finished your first session, Personalize Mark picks up where you left off.
- If you have finished onboarding, Personalize Mark enters Discovery Mode. Each visit introduces another Mark capability, such as getting agent suggestions, working in a canvas, or managing what Mark remembers about you. Mark tracks what it has shown you, so each visit moves on rather than repeating.

As Mark adds capabilities, Discovery Mode includes them, so the pinned chat keeps teaching you over time.

If you come back with a task already in mind, describe it and Personalize Mark helps you with it directly.

Personalize Mark saves every skill you build. To run a skill again, type its shortcut (for example, `/skill-name`) in any Mark chat.

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**Note**

If you use Opti ID, administrators can turn off generative AI in the Opti ID Admin Center. See [Turn generative AI off across Optimizely applications](docId\:X5U0kKD2azV5cIdNqwGNj).
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