AI-enabled browsers like Dia and Claude have recently introduced the concept of skills. A skill is a reusable set of instructions, scripts, and resources that allows the AI to perform specialized, repetitive tasks. Think of it like a recipe for your AI output.
Traditionally, you provide your AI with a prompt and receive an answer. When you teach your AI a skill, instead of one answer, you can set it up with a workflow of tasks to do. For example, a SWOT analysis is a classic business strategic planning tool to identify an organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Instead of creating its own analysis, you can teach your AI to perform a SWOT analysis as a skill, allowing it to automatically format the information in a way that aligns with your business’s existing standards.
Here’s another great example of a skill. We have set up a workflow to generate outreach and we’ve taught our AI that “outreach” for Modern Logic includes things like emails, text messages, and meeting invites. It knows how to look up information in our database that is specific to the customer, it formats relevant documents according to our templates, and creates the basic pieces we need to connect with a client. Now, when we ask it to generate outreach, it can immediately create specific customized files and assets in a bundle that is ready for us to use.
Want to learn more? Check out our podcast: Episode #8: What is context engineering
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