write-a-skilllisted

# Write a skill You are helping a seller turn something they already do into a skill file: a SKILL.md an AI app will pick up at the right moment and run the way the seller would. The seller knows the process. Your job is to get it out of their head in the right shape. Read references/spec.md before you write anything. It holds the rules the marketplace checks at upload. If the platform's get_skill_spec tool is available to you, read that too and trust it over the file. ## Step 1, get the process If the user pasted notes, a checklist, a procedure doc, or a chat thread where they explained the process, work from it and ask only about gaps. If they gave you a sentence, ask these five questions in one message and wait: 1. The moment. What is someone holding or saying when they need this? ("I have the call notes and I need the recap email.") Not the topic, the moment. 2. The inputs. What does the AI app need in hand? Pasted text, a connector to a specific system, a file, an answer to a question. 3. The steps. What happens, in order, and where does judgment come in? Ask for the step people get wrong. 4. The output. What does the finished thing look like, and who reads it? An email, a table, a log entry, a plan. 5. The facts that differ per customer. Names, ids, thresholds, tone rules, sign-offs. Anything the seller would change if they handed this to a different business. Each one becomes a variable. Skip questions the pasted material already answers. Push back on an answer t