Build Your First AI Skill is a three-page Forum3 guide for turning a task you keep repeating into a playbook your AI can reuse. It explains that a skill saves the method, not the facts, and lists good skill candidates such as meeting prep, weekly updates, research briefs, action-item summaries and recurring reporting.
The guide has you give the AI five things: a trigger, an input, a method, an output and a human review step. It includes a build prompt for a Weekly Update skill that readers can adapt, a note on using project or custom instructions in ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot when a skills option is not available, and a checklist for testing the skill in a fresh conversation.
Readers finish with a small first skill they know how to judge.
In this AI Workshops session, Forum3 AI specialist Kait Smith explains what a skill is, a saved playbook an AI can reuse, and how to build one by talking to ChatGPT or Claude. She uses a weekly project update with four sections (wins, work in progress, blockers and next steps) to show what stays fixed in a skill and what changes each week.
Kait builds the skill live in ChatGPT, asks for an example before saving it, then tests it in a fresh conversation against a call transcript. The Q&A covers how to name skills so the wrong one is not triggered, how to decide between a skill and a normal prompt, and working in regulated fields.
Viewers leave with a five-part approach for turning one repeated task into a skill: when it applies, the input, the steps, what good looks like and what still needs approval.
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