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.