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  Reusable bundles of instructions — typically a main markdown file plus
  reference assets — that encode a person's process, taste, or workflow so an AI
  agent can repeat it automatically. In this channel, skills are how
  practitioners capture and hand off judgment to agents: corrections from real
  output go back into the skill file, and the bundle is shareable so others can
  run the same workflow.
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# skills

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

Reusable bundles of instructions — typically a main markdown file plus reference assets — that encode a person's process, taste, or workflow so an AI agent can repeat it automatically. In this channel, skills are how practitioners capture and hand off judgment to agents: corrections from real output go back into the skill file, and the bundle is shareable so others can run the same workflow.

Across the channel's sessions, **skills** mean something specific: reusable bundles of instructions that teach an agent how to do a particular piece of your work — so the agent inherits your judgment instead of starting from zero each time. The clearest usage comes from the creative sessions, where a workflow is literally “turn the outline into a **skill** — with the article as input and a set of Midjourney prompts as output”[^80173b13-be8f-504f-b4a0-b42e68c711bf@0].In the captured material, a skill is built by describing your process in plain language — often by just talking through it — and refining the file as the agent gets things wrong. Key properties the speakers attribute to skills:Skill = a main skill file (MD) plus reference assets (e.g., a curated Midjourney style profile code). Corrections from real output go straight back into the file: append the profile code, prefer fewer words, keep the brand vibe, center subjects for a 1:1 crop.The channel treats skills as the mechanism that turns taste and process into something shareable and compounding. In the Claude Cowork session, skills are the feature that personalizes the agent's behavior[^6c2f1714-42b5-5fb1-9abf-fc8d0d182455@0]; in Andrew Wilkinson's session, he uses skills to “codify his copywriting principles (favorite books, tone) so every copy request inherits them automatically”[^0c3a2f0c-e472-52bf-95f1-57d1d852936c@0]. The same framing appears in OpenAI's Codex playbook: “turn what you hand off into skills.”[^cb24ef4d-a000-5560-8446-9ed871f58aa8@0]- A **skill** is a reusable instruction bundle that encodes your process or taste so an agent repeats it automatically.- Built by rambling/describing your workflow, then iterating: every agent mistake becomes a correction in the skill file.- Skills are shareable — main MD file plus references — so others can run the same workflow.- They appear across contexts: image pipelines, copywriting style, Claude Cowork personalization, and Codex hand-offs.