A customer using Webex Contact Center wants to transition from traditional agent-based routing to a...

In Webex Contact Center, skill-based routing is built from two sides: the queue must express the skill requirement, and the agent must have the matching skill profile. Cisco's official routing and queueing documentation separates skill-based queues from non-skill queues and describes both skill criteria assigned directly to a queue and skill requirements assigned in a flow. Because the question specifically says the customer wants to use skill criteria assigned to queue functionality, the queue configuration must include the skill criteria. The agent side is handled through the skill profile assigned in the agent's settings; that profile carries the agent's skill values and proficiencies used by routing. Associating agents directly to the queue is a non-skill or agent-assignment model, and call distribution groups are for expanding team eligibility over time, not for defining agent skills. Assigning skill criteria to teams is also not the model Cisco documents. Reference: Cisco Help, Understand Routing and Queueing in Webex Contact Center; Create queues and configure routing patterns.