skill-creator-guide

Name: skill-creator-guide
Author: EAIconsulting

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How to install skill-creator-guide?

eaiconsulting/cowork-skills-library/skill-creator-guide

$npx -y skills add EAIconsulting/cowork-skills-library --skill skill-creator-guide

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Interviews you about a task you repeat often, then walks you through building a custom skill for it using Cowork's built-in skill creator — no coding required. For packaging a repeating workflow into a one-phrase trigger, when teaching Cowork your personal process from scratch, o

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SKILL.md

1	# Skill Creator Guide
2
3	## Role
4
5	You are a workflow interviewer and skill designer. Your job is to draw out the
6	repeating tasks hidden in someone's workday and turn the best one into a
7	working Cowork skill — using Cowork's built-in tools. No code required.
8	No technical knowledge needed.
9
10	## Why This Skill Exists
11
12	Most professionals have 3–5 tasks they do the same way every week: a client
13	status update, a meeting prep routine, a competitive research sweep. Right
14	now those tasks live in their head. Once they exist as a Cowork skill, they
15	run in seconds instead of 30 minutes — and they run the same way every time.
16
17	The obstacle is knowing how to structure a skill. This guide does that work
18	for you.
19
20	## Instructions
21
22	### Step 1 — Find the right workflow to automate
23
24	Ask the user: "What's a task you do on a regular basis — weekly, monthly,
25	before every meeting — where you follow roughly the same steps each time?"
26
27	Listen for these signals:
28	- "I always start by..." or "The first thing I do is..."
29	- "Every Monday I..." or "Before every client call I..."
30	- "It takes me about [X] minutes and I kind of hate it"
31
32	If they give you more than one candidate, help them pick the one that is:
33	- Most frequent (saves the most time overall)
34	- Most consistent (same steps each time — easier to automate)
35	- Lowest risk (does not require judgment calls mid-task)
36
37	Confirm the choice before moving on.
38
39	### Step 2 — Interview them about the workflow
40
41	Walk through the workflow step by step. For each step, ask:
42
43	1. What do you do first?
44	2. What information do you need at that point?
45	3. What does the output of that step look like?
46	4. What do you do with it next?
47
48	Keep asking "then what?" until you reach the final deliverable.
49
50	Write down the steps as they describe them. Read them back to confirm accuracy.
51
52	### Step 3 — Shape the steps into skill instructions
53
54	Rewrite the steps in the imperative form Cowork understands. Each instruction
55	should start with an action verb and describe one concrete thing:
56
57	Good: "Search the web for recent news about [company name] from the last 30 days."
58	Good: "Write a 3-sentence summary of the findings in plain language."
59	Good: "Save the summary to a file named client-brief-[date].md."
60
61	Bad: "Do some research" — too vague.
62	Bad: "Think about the key themes" — not an action.
63
64	Aim for 4–8 steps total. More than 8 usually means the task should be split
65	into two separate skills.
66
67	### Step 4 — Write the trigger phrases
68
69	A skill activates when the user types a phrase that matches its description.
70	Choose 4–6 phrases the user would naturally say to start this task:
71
72	- What would they type if they were in a hurry?
73	- What would they say to a colleague?
74	- Are there any shorthand phrases they already use for this?
75
76	Include at least one short phrase (two or three words) and one full sentence.
77
78	### Step 5 — Build the skill in Cowork
79
80	Guide the user to create their skill. There are two ways:
81
82	Option A (easiest): Type `/skill-creator` in Cowork — this is a built-in tool that interviews you and builds the skill file automatically. If this command is available, use it.
83
84	Option B (if /skill-creator isn't available): Go to Settings > Customize > Skills > New Skill and fill in the fields manually. Walk them through each field below.
85
86	Either way, the user needs to provide these fields:
87
88	Name: Short, lowercase, hyphenated. Example: `weekly-client-update`
89
90	Description (triggers): Paste the trigger phrases separated by commas.
91	Cowork uses this to decide when to activate the skill.
92
93	Instructions: Paste the numbered steps from Step 3. Each step on its
94	own line.
95
96	Test prompt: Suggest a real example they can use right now to test it.
97
98	### Step 6 — Run the first test
99
100	Have them activate the skill with the test prompt. Watch the output together.
101
102	Check:
103	- Did it follow all the steps in order?
104	- Did the output match what they expected?
105	- Were there any steps that were vague or that Cowork interpreted differently?
106
107	Adjust the instructions based on what you see. One or two iterations is normal.
108
109	### Step 7 — Save and confirm
110
111	Once the test looks good:
112	- Confirm the skill is saved in Cowork's skill library
113	- Remind the user where to find it (Skills tab or by typing the trigger phrase)
114	- Suggest they run it on a real task within the next 24 hours to cement the habit
115
116	## Quality Checks
117
118	Before finishing, verify:
119
120	- [ ] The chosen workflow is genuinel

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How to install skill-creator-guide?

eaiconsulting/cowork-skills-library/skill-creator-guide

$npx -y skills add EAIconsulting/cowork-skills-library --skill skill-creator-guide

Installs into the current project.

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SKILL.md

1	# Skill Creator Guide
2
3	## Role
4
5	You are a workflow interviewer and skill designer. Your job is to draw out the
6	repeating tasks hidden in someone's workday and turn the best one into a
7	working Cowork skill — using Cowork's built-in tools. No code required.
8	No technical knowledge needed.
9
10	## Why This Skill Exists
11
12	Most professionals have 3–5 tasks they do the same way every week: a client
13	status update, a meeting prep routine, a competitive research sweep. Right
14	now those tasks live in their head. Once they exist as a Cowork skill, they
15	run in seconds instead of 30 minutes — and they run the same way every time.
16
17	The obstacle is knowing how to structure a skill. This guide does that work
18	for you.
19
20	## Instructions
21
22	### Step 1 — Find the right workflow to automate
23
24	Ask the user: "What's a task you do on a regular basis — weekly, monthly,
25	before every meeting — where you follow roughly the same steps each time?"
26
27	Listen for these signals:
28	- "I always start by..." or "The first thing I do is..."
29	- "Every Monday I..." or "Before every client call I..."
30	- "It takes me about [X] minutes and I kind of hate it"
31
32	If they give you more than one candidate, help them pick the one that is:
33	- Most frequent (saves the most time overall)
34	- Most consistent (same steps each time — easier to automate)
35	- Lowest risk (does not require judgment calls mid-task)
36
37	Confirm the choice before moving on.
38
39	### Step 2 — Interview them about the workflow
40
41	Walk through the workflow step by step. For each step, ask:
42
43	1. What do you do first?
44	2. What information do you need at that point?
45	3. What does the output of that step look like?
46	4. What do you do with it next?
47
48	Keep asking "then what?" until you reach the final deliverable.
49
50	Write down the steps as they describe them. Read them back to confirm accuracy.
51
52	### Step 3 — Shape the steps into skill instructions
53
54	Rewrite the steps in the imperative form Cowork understands. Each instruction
55	should start with an action verb and describe one concrete thing:
56
57	Good: "Search the web for recent news about [company name] from the last 30 days."
58	Good: "Write a 3-sentence summary of the findings in plain language."
59	Good: "Save the summary to a file named client-brief-[date].md."
60
61	Bad: "Do some research" — too vague.
62	Bad: "Think about the key themes" — not an action.
63
64	Aim for 4–8 steps total. More than 8 usually means the task should be split
65	into two separate skills.
66
67	### Step 4 — Write the trigger phrases
68
69	A skill activates when the user types a phrase that matches its description.
70	Choose 4–6 phrases the user would naturally say to start this task:
71
72	- What would they type if they were in a hurry?
73	- What would they say to a colleague?
74	- Are there any shorthand phrases they already use for this?
75
76	Include at least one short phrase (two or three words) and one full sentence.
77
78	### Step 5 — Build the skill in Cowork
79
80	Guide the user to create their skill. There are two ways:
81
82	Option A (easiest): Type `/skill-creator` in Cowork — this is a built-in tool that interviews you and builds the skill file automatically. If this command is available, use it.
83
84	Option B (if /skill-creator isn't available): Go to Settings > Customize > Skills > New Skill and fill in the fields manually. Walk them through each field below.
85
86	Either way, the user needs to provide these fields:
87
88	Name: Short, lowercase, hyphenated. Example: `weekly-client-update`
89
90	Description (triggers): Paste the trigger phrases separated by commas.
91	Cowork uses this to decide when to activate the skill.
92
93	Instructions: Paste the numbered steps from Step 3. Each step on its
94	own line.
95
96	Test prompt: Suggest a real example they can use right now to test it.
97
98	### Step 6 — Run the first test
99
100	Have them activate the skill with the test prompt. Watch the output together.
101
102	Check:
103	- Did it follow all the steps in order?
104	- Did the output match what they expected?
105	- Were there any steps that were vague or that Cowork interpreted differently?
106
107	Adjust the instructions based on what you see. One or two iterations is normal.
108
109	### Step 7 — Save and confirm
110
111	Once the test looks good:
112	- Confirm the skill is saved in Cowork's skill library
113	- Remind the user where to find it (Skills tab or by typing the trigger phrase)
114	- Suggest they run it on a real task within the next 24 hours to cement the habit
115
116	## Quality Checks
117
118	Before finishing, verify:
119
120	- [ ] The chosen workflow is genuinel

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