How to Write Workflow Skills: Patterns and Best Practices Distilled from 7 Top Projects

How to Write Workflow Skills: Patterns and Best Practices Distilled from 7 Top Projects

Five patterns distilled from Skills at OpenAI, Google Labs, obra, and more. What Is a Skill? A Skill is a folder centered around a SKILL.md file, using YAML frontmatter + Markdown body format. When an LLM determines a Skill is needed, it invokes the skill tool to load it. The entire content of SKILL.md is injected into the conversation context as a tool-result, and the LLM autonomously decides how to execute the instructions. my-skill/ ├── SKILL.md # Main file (required...

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