skillify

name	skillify
description	Turn a repeated workflow or prompt into a reusable DotAIOS skill, drafted for you, saved only after you approve.
triggers	skillify this, make this a skill, turn this into a skill, save this as a skill, I keep doing this, automate this workflow, remember how to do this
when_to_use	skillify this · make this a skill · turn this into a skill · save this as a skill · I keep doing this · automate this workflow · remember how to do this

Skillify

Turn something the user does repeatedly into a reusable skill, so any agent on this machine can run it later. You draft it, the user approves, then it is saved and becomes routable through skills/RESOLVER.md.

When to use this

• The user says "skillify this", "make this a skill", or similar.
• You notice the user has asked for the same kind of workflow 2+ times, or keeps pasting the same prompt. Offer: "You've done this a few times, want me to make it a reusable skill?"

Hard rules (do not break)

• Ask before saving. Draft the skill and show it to the user. Only write files after they say yes. Never auto-save a generated skill.
• No eval rig. A skill is markdown plus, at most, one tiny script. Do not add scoring, LLM evals, or routing-eval files. The user's approval is the quality gate.
• No secrets. Never put credentials, tokens, or private data into a skill.

Steps

1. Check it's worth it. Skillify only if the workflow is reusable (done 2+ times) and has a clear thing the user would say to trigger it. One-off tasks stay one-off.
2. Pick a slug, short, lowercase-hyphenated, e.g. weekly-report.
3. Draft the skill. Write the body as clear, ordered steps an agent can follow. Choose 3 to 6 natural trigger phrases the user would actually say.
4. Show the draft (frontmatter + steps) and ask: "Save this as a skill?"
5. On approval, create skills/<slug>/SKILL.md with this frontmatter, then the steps:

   ---
   name: <slug>
   description: <one line of what it does>
   triggers: <phrase>, <phrase>, <phrase>
   ---
   

6. Reindex so every agent can find it: use only the current host-managed candidate_invocation, launching its executable with its argv_prefix plus ["activate"], without a shell. Stop if the object is absent. This regenerates skills/INDEX.md and skills/RESOLVER.md. Confirm the new skill appears in RESOLVER.md.
7. Tell the user it is saved and which phrases now trigger it.

Output

A new skills/<slug>/SKILL.md, registered in INDEX.md + RESOLVER.md, runnable by any agent on this machine.