AI Skills 101: How to Build and Use Skills in ChatGPT

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Summary:

AI Skills are reusable instruction packages that teach an AI how you want a repeatable job done. Instead of explaining the same quarterly report, client update or content workflow every time, you can package the method into a Skill and let the AI load it when that job comes up.

In this video I explain what Skills are, what lives inside a SKILL.md file, where Skills can live, how the AI chooses one and how to build your first Skill without coding. I also show why small, bounded Skills work better than one giant "run my whole business" Skill, plus how to turn a successful chat into a reusable process and test it properly.

—— Time Stamps ——

0:00 AI Skills 101

0:36 Stop Repeating the Same Work

1:24 Why Skills Matter in ChatGPT Now

2:06 How to Use a Skill in ChatGPT

3:14 What a Skill File Looks Like

4:56 References, Assets and Scripts

5:28 How Skills Get Chosen

7:02 Where Skills Can Live

7:57 Find and Install Existing Skills

9:21 What Makes a Good First Skill

10:48 Build a Skill by Talking to AI

12:04 Turn a Working Chat into a Skill

13:12 Test and Improve Your Skill

14:18 Why Skills Matter Now

14:38 Guide and Next Steps

—— Useful Resources ——

OpenAI - Build Skills:

https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills

OpenAI Academy - Using Skills:

https://openai.com/academy/skills/

Agent Skills specification:

https://agentskills.io/specification

Anthropic - Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills:

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/equipping-agents-for-the-real-world-with-agent-skills