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Fig. 06 — Scaling up

From one-off prompts to “prompts as skills”

A prompt you retype every time is a liability. Turn the ones that work into versioned, documented, shareable skills.

01 — Isolate

Spot the instructions you reuse more than twice a week.

02 — Document

Write down the assumptions, constraints and examples that made the prompt reliable.

03 — Name and version

A clear name, a usage description, and tracked changes — as with code.

04 — Share

A well-described skill is invoked instead of re-explained in every conversation.

# skill.md
name: contract-termination-review
description: Flags ambiguous or unbalanced termination
  clauses in a B2B contract and proposes a rewrite.
trigger: contract uploaded + "termination" or "notice"
version: 1.2

The idea exists in several forms: Agent Skills at Anthropic, “Gems” in Gemini, custom GPTs at OpenAI. The format changes; the discipline stays the same.