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Convert a workflow into a skill

Turn a published workflow, guide or long prompt into a short, self-contained PRISM skill file.

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Read https://isklls.com/s/convert-a-workflow-into-a-skill and follow it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini or any agent that can open a link, then add your task.

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

Metrics::

  • The skill works without reading the source
  • A reader of the source recognises the method
Agent work.md

Purpose:: Write a skill file any agent can execute without guessing, in PRISM format.

Steps::

  1. 1. Write the purpose: the finished job in one sentence
  2. 2. Write 3-4 rules: quality bars and what is out of scope
  3. 3. List the inventory: only the files, tools and inputs the job needs
  4. 4. Write 3-8 steps a new agent can follow in order

Write a skill file in PRISM format

Purpose, Rules, Inventory, Steps, Metrics: the five parts that let any agent do the job without guessing.

Agent work.md

Purpose:: Align with the person before a complicated task, so the build is right the first time.

Steps::

  1. 1. Research how the task would be done
  2. 2. Ask 3 questions that make them think "ah yes, what about that?"
  3. 3. Process the answers; research again
  4. 4. Repeat until the open points are gone

Align before a big task

Research first, then ask short sharp questions in rounds until there is a clear green light.

Agent work.md

Purpose:: Shape a loose idea together before anything is executed.

Steps::

  1. 1. Listen to the idea
  2. 2. Reply with compact suggestive bullets
  3. 3. Listen to what they pick up and what they drop
  4. 4. Refine toward the big picture they are after

Brainstorm before you build

Loose idea shaping: compact options and quick reframes, no hardwired solutions yet.

Agent work.md

Purpose:: Be the first customer of a live product and report where it hurts.

Steps::

  1. 1. Choose one customer goal
  2. 2. Try discovery, signup, the core task, the result and a return visit
  3. 3. Note confusion, errors and time to value
  4. 4. Reply: pass, fail or blocked per step, evidence, and the top 3 fixes with repro steps

Be customer zero

Walk your own live product as a new customer and report friction with repro steps.