Works · Mini-tool

Skill Library
Generator

Describe one task you do over and over. Get a starter SKILL.md you finish in two minutes, then paste straight into Claude or ChatGPT. The first skill in your company's library.

This is the easy part made visible. Access (connectors, data) gets an agent into the work. A skill teaches it how the work actually gets done. Your private, company-specific skills are the asset competitors cannot download.

01 / Describe the work

Start with the work, not the tool

Pick a repeated, judgment-heavy task. The kind where your best person consistently gets a better result than everyone else. Answer what you can. Blanks are fine, the tool marks them so you know exactly what to finish.

Short name for the repeated job. Example: "Write a first-draft sales follow-up email" or "Triage an inbound support ticket".
The trigger. What kicks this task off?
The steps, in order. What do they check first? What gets overlooked by everyone else? One per line.
The quality bar. How does the owner decide a result is good enough to ship?
The non-negotiables and the traps. What must it never do? What does it get wrong if left alone? One per line.
One real input and the ideal output. Examples teach a model far faster than instructions. Paste a good one if you have it.
The person whose judgment this captures. Keeping them close is how the skill stays sharp.

Add a task name to generate. The rest is optional.


03 / Your starter skill

Your SKILL.md

This is a starter you finish, not a finished skill. The tool scaffolds your inputs into the correct Anthropic SKILL.md shape and adds best-practice guardrails by keyword. The judgment is still yours to sharpen.



    
Finish the starter

The checklist

Everything below is what turns this starter into a real, reusable skill. Items flagged ! are gaps the tool found in your inputs.

    How to use it

    Paste it in

    Claude Code: add it to your skills directory as SKILL.md in a folder named after the skill, and Claude loads it as a skill. In a Claude Project, paste it as a custom instruction or knowledge file.

    ChatGPT: paste the body into a Custom GPT's instructions, or drop the file into a Project's files.

    Paths and menu names follow each platform's current docs, so check theirs if a step has moved.

    Then run the task. Watch where the model gets it wrong, and feed that back into the rules and examples. That feedback loop is the whole game.

    Where this goes next

    One skill is a demo. A library is a moat.

    This tool builds one starter from one description. The real work is mapping every repeated, judgment-heavy task across your business, interrogating the people who do them best, and packaging each as a skill your agents can actually run. That map, and the install, is the Works Audit.

    The Audit is where the keyword guesses this tool makes get replaced with your actual method, your edge cases, your quality bar. The gap you can feel between this starter and a finished skill is exactly the gap the Audit closes.

    Straight talk about this tool

    What it does, and what it doesn't

    It does not write the skill for you. There is no AI running here. It takes your inputs and structures them into a correct, paste-ready SKILL.md, then adds a small set of curated best-practice guardrails by matching keywords across what you enter (email, report, data, client work, and a universal stop-guard so it never invents missing facts).

    Output quality scales with input quality. Vague inputs make a vague starter. Specific inputs make a strong one. The keyword enrichment is a small, curated set, so it is helpful, not exhaustive. Treat the result as a starter you finish, not an AI-generated skill.

    That gap is the point. Seeing how much of a good skill is your judgment, not the template, is the clearest demonstration of why the work, not the tool, is the asset.

    Optional / Keep it

    Want a permanent copy?

    Email yourself the file plus the finish-it checklist. We send it once, and follow up only if you want a real Audit. No list-bombing.

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