Create a skill with the co-pilot

The quickest way to make a skill is to tell the IdeaboxAI Co-pilot what you want in your own words. It plans the skill, checks with you to make sure it understood, writes all the instructions, and gives you a finished skill file you can install. This guide walks through describing, reviewing, building, and installing a skill.

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Open the Co-pilot and describe your skill

Start from the Co-pilot home screen and describe what you need.

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Look over the plan

Before writing anything, the Co-pilot shows you a plan so you can check it first. It shows the following.

• Skill name - A suggested name, for example, market-competition-research.
• What it would do - A short list of what the skill covers.
• When you’d use it - The kinds of questions or situations it’s meant for.
• What the result looks like - The sections the finished output will have, for example, a summary, a market overview, competitor profiles, a comparison, opportunities and risks, and sources.

The Co-pilot might also ask you a couple of quick questions, for example, whether the skill should be general or focused on one industry, whether it should do a quick check or a deep dive, and how you’d like the result laid out.

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The Co-pilot builds your skill

Once you say yes, the Co-pilot writes the whole skill for you, the instructions, the layout for the results, a guide for choosing good sources, and any extra supporting files. You see it working as it goes. When it’s finished, you see the following.

• A skill card with the skill’s name and version, for example, market-competition-research Skill V1.
• A Download button to save the skill file.
• A Share button to send the skill to someone.
• A short recap of what the skill does, what’s included, and when to use it.
• Next steps for how to install and try out your new skill.

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Install your skill

With the skill file saved, upload it to Skills Studio to make it available to your personas. Your skill now appears in Skills Studio, ready to add to your personas.

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Tips for creating good skills

A little upfront detail produces a sharper skill on the first try.

• Be clear about the result you want. The more you describe how the finished output should look, its sections, layout, and length, the more useful your skill will be.
• Say when you’d use it. Tell the Co-pilot what kinds of questions this skill should help with. This helps it know when to step in.
• Answer the questions it asks. These questions clear up anything unclear, and answering them gives you a better skill on the first try.
• Try it before adding it to a persona. Once installed, run three to five realistic questions through it to check the results before you put it to work in a live persona.
• Keep improving it with the Co-pilot. If the result isn’t quite right, tell the Co-pilot what you’d like to change in the same chat, and it makes a new, improved version.
• Keep each skill focused. A skill that does one thing well is easier to look after and works more reliably than one that tries to do too much at once.