You don’t need to write code to make a skill. You describe the job, and the assistant drafts the skill for you.
Making a Skill
Start with a job you already do the same way each time, like a monthly expense report, a weekly team update, or notes from a recurring client meeting. There are two ways to begin:
- Describe the job in a new chat. Say what goes in, what a good result looks like, and anything that must never happen. If you have a template or a past result you liked, upload it too.
- Turn a chat you just finished into a skill. If you’ve just worked through the job with the assistant and the result came out right, ask it to turn what you did into a skill. It looks back over the conversation, writes down the steps, including the corrections you made along the way, and asks you about anything it couldn’t work out. Then you save the skill in the app, or download the file and add it in your app’s skills settings.
In Claude and ChatGPT, a skill called skill-creator does the drafting. It asks you about the job and fills in the details from your answers. When the draft is ready, read it the way you’d read instructions written for a new colleague, and change anything that doesn’t match how you actually do the job.
