> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Skill Tracking Across Your Nebula Sessions

> Learn how Nebula measures your performance across six professional skill categories and how your scores grow with every session you complete.

Nebula tracks your professional development across six skill categories throughout every session. Each time you make a decision, interact with a persona, or navigate a workplace challenge, Nebula evaluates your behavior and updates your skill scores accordingly. These scores are persistent — they carry forward across all your sessions and represent your cumulative professional ability over time, not just your performance in a single run.

## The six skill categories

Each skill maps to a distinct dimension of professional performance. Nebula evaluates all six in every session, drawing evidence from your interactions, decisions, and how you manage the simulation environment.

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  <Card title="Communication" icon="message-lines">
    How clearly you convey ideas, requests, and responses — including your tone, precision, and ability to adapt your message to different audiences and situations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Decision Making" icon="code-branch">
    The quality of the choices you make at decision checkpoints, including how well you weigh trade-offs, interpret available information, and commit to a course of action under pressure.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Stakeholder Management" icon="people-arrows">
    How well you navigate relationships and influence outcomes — managing up, sideways, and across teams while balancing competing interests and keeping key players aligned.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Technical Acumen" icon="microchip">
    Your domain-specific knowledge and how effectively you apply it inside the scenario context, including understanding the tools, frameworks, and constraints relevant to your assigned role.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Leadership" icon="star">
    How you direct work, inspire action, and manage upward — including your ability to set direction, give clear guidance, handle conflict, and create accountability.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Time Management" icon="clock">
    Your ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage competing workload demands without losing quality or momentum across the session.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How skills are scored

Nebula scores your skills based on two primary sources:

* **Decision checkpoint evaluations** — each time you reach a decision checkpoint in the simulation, Nebula evaluates the quality of your choice and assigns a score to the skill categories most relevant to that decision.
* **Session performance** — your broader behavior across the session, including how you communicate with personas, handle disruptions, and manage your workload, contributes to your ongoing skill scores.

Each skill has a `score` that reflects your current level and an `xpToNext` value showing exactly how much XP you need to reach the next skill level. You can see both in your dashboard or by reviewing your session analytics after a completed session.

## Skills persist across sessions

Your skill scores are not reset between sessions. Every session you complete adds to your cumulative record. If you score well in **Leadership** across three different scenarios, that growth compounds — your score and level reflect the full history of your performance, not just your most recent session.

This means returning to Nebula regularly and pushing into harder scenarios is the most effective way to develop your skill profile over time.

## Viewing your skills

You can check your current skill scores in two places:

* **Your dashboard** — shows your current score and level for each of the six categories at a glance.
* **Your session report** — after a session completes, the report includes a full progression breakdown with your updated skill scores and `xpToNext` values for each category.

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  <Accordion title="Why did my skill score not change after a session?">
    Skill scores update based on the quality of your decisions and interactions, not just session completion. If a session had few decision checkpoints or your performance was similar to your existing baseline, the change may be small. Harder scenarios and more complex decisions tend to produce more meaningful skill movement.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can one session affect multiple skill categories?">
    Yes. Most decision checkpoints touch more than one skill category. A negotiation with a stakeholder, for example, can affect both **Stakeholder Management** and **Communication** in the same evaluation. The skill categories most relevant to each decision determine how XP and score changes are distributed.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What does xpToNext mean?">
    `xpToNext` is the amount of XP you still need to earn in that skill category before your skill level increases. As you earn XP through decisions and session performance, this number decreases until you level up.
  </Accordion>
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