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name: convert-a-workflow-into-a-skill
description: "Turn a published workflow, guide or long prompt into a short, self-contained PRISM skill file."
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# Convert a workflow into a skill

Purpose:: Turn an outside workflow (a guide, a thread, a long prompt) into one PRISM skill file.

Rules::
- Keep the author's method; drop their story, ads and filler
- One job per skill; a long workflow becomes several skills in order
- Replace personal tools and paths with what any reader has
- Credit the source in one line at the end

Inventory::
- The source workflow (URL or text)
- Write a skill file in PRISM format (the five parts)

Steps::
1. Read the source once fully; name the one finished job it delivers
2. Split it if it delivers more than one job
3. Pull out the quality bars as Rules and the needed inputs as Inventory
4. Rewrite the method as 3-8 steps in plain words
5. Write Metrics from the author's own idea of success
6. Run it once on a real example; fix the step that went wrong
7. Reply with the skill file and the source line

Metrics::
- The skill works without reading the source
- A reader of the source recognises the method

Source:: https://isklls.com/skills/convert-a-workflow-into-a-skill (iSklls, free skill library)