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You do not have to write out your skill yourself
When I started with skills, I wrote them out completely myself. Every step, every exception, in a Markdown file. I do not really do that anymore. You just ask ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot to write a skill, and it knows how to do that. A folder with a lowercase name, a SKILL.md file inside it, the right description at the top. Your AI handles that itself.
What you still do yourself, is tell your AI what the skill needs to do. And there are different ways to do that. This week I put them side by side in a training, because many people think there is only one.
Describing what you do
The first way is the best known. You describe the steps of your work in a chat. Suppose you want a skill to write blog articles. Then you say how such an article should be structured, with which titles, in which order. In companies they call that a standard operating procedure, or SOP. That is a bit of jargon, but it is just your step-by-step plan.
I use the second way very often myself. I do not describe the steps, I show the result. I say: look at that website, or at that example, I want that too. And then I let the agent figure out the steps to get there itself. That works well if you know what you want, but not how you would explain it.
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