I have a small warning if you use ChatGPT every day: check how much time you spend teaching it things you already taught it last week.
Your writing style. The way you research. How you want a report arranged. What it should never invent. Which sources to trust. What to check before saying the work is finished.
I went through a few long AI workflows recently and noticed the same instructions appearing again and again.
That felt ridiculous.
There is now a much cleaner way to handle it.
And I think this is one of those ChatGPT features that looks small for five minutes, then quietly changes how you work.
ChatGPT can now remember the method
The feature is called Skills.
A Skill is simply a saved way of doing a job.
You can tell ChatGPT:
When I give you a meeting transcript, find the decisions, action items, owners and deadlines. Never invent a missing owner. Then write the follow-up email.
Save that as a Skill.
Next week, you do not need the whole prompt again. You give it the new meeting and run the same workflow.
That is the idea.
A Skill can hold instructions, examples, reference files and even small scripts. ChatGPT can use one when you select it, or automatically when your request clearly matches what the Skill was built to do.
The important difference is easy to remember:
Prompt = what I want now.
Skill = how I want this kind of work done every time.
This becomes especially useful with models such as GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra. Both support Skills and tools, while Astra is designed for harder, longer jobs across research, code, browsers and software.
So here are the 20 Skills I would actually build or keep around.
1. Skill Creator
Start here.
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