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Skills — turn playbooks into executable specs

A skill is a plan plus repeatable steps and guardrails.

Intuition

A skill captures “how I reliably use the model here”: inputs, steps, expected outputs, and failure handling.

vs one-off prompts

  • One-off: this message only.
  • Skill: a repeatable SOP you can version and hand off.

Next

Use a practice item to write: steps + I/O + acceptance for a workflow you repeat.

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