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Skills: teach it the job once
A skill is your best checklist, saved. You write down how a job should be done, once, in plain English. From then on the AI works from it, and the whole job starts from one short line.
A saved skill, running live
You type one line
/local-competitor-battlecard Apex Roofing
Asked you four quick questions
Researched listings and reviews
Checked every claim against a source
Apex Roofing, at a glance
- Strong Fast quotes and a big ad budget
- Weak Two-week backlog, billing complaints
- Your edge Flat-rate pricing and a weekend crew
Sample output. The names and details are made up.
The idea
The checklist in your head, written down once
Every owner has jobs they redo from scratch that never change: the quote email, the review reply, the competitor check. A skill moves that job out of your head and into a file the AI follows.
"How I write quotes." Your pricing rules, your tone, the three things every quote must mention, saved once. Every quote after that starts ninety percent done.
"Local competitor battlecard." The skill in the demo above. It interviews you about your market, researches your competitors from live listings and reviews, verifies what it found, and hands back a one-page battlecard. All from one typed line.
The magic is not the slash. It is that the thinking happened once, carefully, and now it runs on demand.
Why bother
What saving it buys you
Same checklist every time
Your best process, written down, so nothing rides on memory or a busy morning. You review the result instead of rebuilding it.
One line to run it
The thinking happened once, when you wrote it down. After that the whole job starts from a single short line.
Your crew can use it too
A skill is a file. Share it, and the new hire's first draft comes out sounding like your best day.
Try it
You do not have to write your first one
Our library is fourteen skills already written properly: each one interviews you and ends in a deliverable, and several research your market with verification. Copy one into free Claude or ChatGPT and it runs as a one-off. Like one enough to keep it?
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Run it from the library first. Copy the full prompt from any skill page and paste it into your AI tool. That is the whole job, no setup.
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Then save it. In Claude's paid plans, look for Skills in the settings and save the same instructions there. From then on it runs from one typed line, like the demo up top.
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Make it yours. Add your pricing rules, your tone, your area. The skill gets better every time you sharpen a line of it.
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