# Show Me Your AI — Episode 11 Full transcript: AI Skills: How You Can Build, Share and Improve Them Across a Large Company. --- *Cold open.* *"Danbot Gilbot's cooking up something."* *"What, like the Martha Stewart of AI recipes?"* *"...if you could instantly make everyone in your company smarter?"* *"I'm like the Gordon Ramsay of AI with all my recipes."* --- **DAN:** Welcome to Show Me Your AI with Dan Gilbert. Today we're talking about skills. Mad skills. What are they? How do you build them? How do you improve them, and then how do you share them? Let's play. All right, Casey, let's kick it off. What are skills? ## What is a skill? **CASEY:** Yeah, for sure. So a skill is like a recipe. It uses essentially the same formula every time. Whenever you're doing a repeatable workflow, you can set up the set of steps that it will follow every single time. It's pretty simple to actually create a skill, so we'll immediately just dive into how we do that. ## Creating a skill **CASEY:** All you need to do is go into Claude, or any other platform that you're using, and just say, "Can you create a skill for me?" We're starting with a really basic example, just how to make case studies. So yeah, this is pretty basic. "Can you create a skill to make case studies." And then here we can see this is the skill that it has made. All I need to do is hit save, and then I can immediately use and run this skill. **DAN:** Which means that next time you come to do the same task, it will do it very quickly. **CASEY:** Yep, exactly. And you don't need to reteach it and give it all the same context again. ## Using a skill **CASEY:** All right, so now let's move on to how you actually use a skill. If we scroll up to the top here, if you wouldn't mind scrolling to the top. All I had to do is say "build a case study from this brief," and it immediately followed all the same instructions that I'd had before. It read the brief. We're able to see some of the things that it has made here, and if you click over on this side, you can see that it called the skill right here, where we can see all the different instructions. These are things that it needs to do every time. And so that's really all I needed to do, because I set up the trigger words to trigger the skill whenever I say that I want to make a case study. --- *I hope you're enjoying this video. Every like, subscribe or comment adds to Danbot Gilbot's training data and does its own part in helping Danbot Gilbot take over the world. Thank you. Now back to the video.* --- **CASEY:** And as we scroll down here, we can see it's working through it. It made a first document for me to review, and then we were able to get to this final point where we can see that it outputted a Google Drive document. When it wants to load. **DAN:** Which is kind of ugly. ## Updating a skill **CASEY:** Yeah. So we look at this, and this is not exactly what we want to be sharing. We can definitely make some way better case studies from this. So now we can actually move on to the point of how do you actually update a skill. In that last one I said, "Now can you make me an output." And so we can see here we have an HTML which looks much better than the Google Drive. And in this particular one there was like, so if you scroll up a little bit, "Can you update the skill so it outputs one page instead of a doc." So it's done that straight away. **DAN:** Exactly. And now that skill will be updated to those instructions that we looked at earlier. Will that always apply when someone runs this particular recipe? **CASEY:** Exactly. And so yeah, you can see that this is all that it's suggesting to update the skill. And now this doesn't happen all naturally. If we move on to the next slide, this is how this works in the system that we've built. We'll show you this at the end. But if you are using a skill in Claude, it doesn't let you dynamically update someone else's skill. So we have created this system in Notion, where you can see that it goes in. Even when you share a skill with someone else, only the person that created the skill is actually able to edit it, which is kind of annoying. **DAN:** Yeah, exactly. There's no way to feed back on whether the recipe worked. Which, taking it back to your cooking analogy, is like, well, it didn't work well for this reason or this reason. So this is some structure that we've created around that. It's a bit hacky, but it's actually something Notion allows you to do quite easily. ## The approval loop **CASEY:** Yeah, exactly. So we can see that I suggested the skill update, and Liz is the approver. And going forward, once that hits approved, all the skills will do this. **DAN:** So where's the approve? **CASEY:** So if you go up to status, click approved. And then once that's done, all good to go for the future of this skill. **DAN:** So the owner would have to tick yes, and then that skill will be updated if the changes were accepted. And then the instructions will be updated, so that recipe is now the default recipe for everyone. **CASEY:** Yeah, exactly. **DAN:** Rock and roll. Cool. **CASEY:** And so now if we go to the next page, we can see that these are all the different updates that have been made to the skill so far. So mainly me and Evan updating it, but this is various people saying it didn't work, change this, or we could add this, or actually I didn't like that, change that. And then those have all been reviewed and then either implemented or rejected. **DAN:** Yeah, exactly. And this is, by design, another level up from individual skills. They get good when they go through multiple error corrections. That's when you go from like a 100 IQ skill to a 150 IQ skill. Like when it can really actually apply in almost every edge case, which is super cool. ## Sharing a skill **CASEY:** Cool. And finally, so I know that we pretty much already covered this, but this is how you actually share a skill in Claude. If we look at this, this is just a basic example of a skill. And if you're just a team of like two people, this is a really easy way to share. In smaller teams, you can essentially just make it a Notion page. Because we have a lot of different teams that need to make pretty complex skills, we've created a better system, like we just gave you a sneak peek, but we'll do more of a full deep dive on how this links into GitHub, Notion, Claude, all of that. But if you're a smaller team, honestly, just sharing a Notion page is a really easy way for you all to update skills dynamically. And we'll include instructions on how to do this underneath before the next episode so that you can just plug it into your existing Claude. **DAN:** The principle just says, store the skills in a shared collaborative cloud space so it doesn't just live on your own computer, and then the mini skills that live on your own instance just look up the cloud-based skills. **CASEY:** Yeah. Straightforward. **DAN:** Exactly. That's it today. Thank you for tuning in to Show Me Your AI. Subscribe to the channel for more mad skills next time.