Skill Creator

Writes a new skill as a procedure a specialist would actually follow.

Productivity · produces a Document · built in, ready to run

What you give it

Whatever the job is about — a block of text, a URL, a name. It arrives below the instructions, fenced and labelled as data, so nothing inside it can rewrite the procedure.

Tools it uses

Restricted to these, and nothing else:

• list_skills
• read_skill_file
• workspace_file

Fewer tools means fewer ways to do the job, which is what makes the result the same next week. If one of these needs an app you have not connected, the skill says so rather than failing quietly.

The procedure it follows

This is the skill, in full. Add it to your own skills to change any of it.

Check with list_skills that nothing overlapping exists. Find the real job by asking what a good output looks like and what the bad one looked like last time — the bad one is where the procedure comes from. Write it in the imperative, put the judgement calls in, give it a quality bar of three to six checks, and name the tools it may use and only those. Move rubrics and worked examples into reference files once the procedure runs long.

How to run it

In chat, on the Skills page and in automations you do not have to add it first — a library skill runs as it is. Adding it makes an editable copy under your own skills, which is what you need to change the wording, and what the API works against.

New to skills? Start with what a skill is.