Overview
Suppose an agent is used to create search-focused content. The first run may require several corrections: how to structure the article, how to align it with the brand, how to organize the output, and how to prepare it for the next step in the workflow.
After the procedure works:
- Ask the agent to capture the successful process as a skill.
- Store the procedure in the skill file.
- Apply it to a new content task.
- Compare the new result with the desired standard.
- Amend the skill where the process remains weak.
- Use the updated skill for future work.
The same principle applies to long-horizon coding guidance. An agent can learn from a tutorial, extract the procedure, and save it as a skill for later use.
It is also important to distinguish a skill from an end product. A Markdown skill file can teach an agent how to perform keyword research, but it is not itself a usable keyword research application. When the required artifact is an app, the task must explicitly require the app in addition to any internal skill used to build it.