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Pi ships with a library of skills, but when you have a specific workflow you run again and again, you can have Pi save it as your own skill so it repeats the exact steps next time. The reliable way to make one is to run the workflow once by hand, then at the end of the chat ask Pi to write it up as a skill, since it just watched you do it. The skill lands in your skills folder, where you can read and refine what Pi saved. A skill you create is private to your organization; sharing it across accounts needs an admin.

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The idea

Pi’s built-in skills cover the common tasks. What they can’t cover is the specific sequence you like to run in a specific order for your own work. Rather than re-explaining that sequence every time, you teach Pi once and it remembers. The trick is to build the skill from a real run, not from a description. Do the task manually first, then ask Pi to summarise what you both just did. It captures the actual steps, tools, and order, which is far more accurate than writing the recipe from scratch. How specific you are is a dial. The more precisely you spell out the steps, the more reliably the skill repeats and the less room there is for error. Leave it looser if you would rather Pi fill in the gaps and pick a strategy each time.

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Steps

Each step has the real prompt to send Pi, followed by what comes back. Copy the prompt, adapt it to your workflow, and follow along.

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1. Run the workflow once, by hand

Do the task with Pi the normal way first. In the video that’s a full competitor keyword expansion. Pi watching a real run is what lets it record the true steps instead of guessing at them, so there’s nothing to send here yet. Just get to a good result.

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2. Ask Pi to save it as a skill

At the end of the conversation, ask Pi to turn what you just did into a reusable skill. Spell out the steps in order, name any existing skill it should lean on, and say what should trigger it. Be as specific as you want the repeat to be exact: 
help me create a skill that does this automatically next time, starting with expanding on
existing keywords (also looking at more commercial angles / professionals), then looking at
competitors' site and sitemap (and if it can't be reached, try their robots.txt too) with
subagents, then grouping and giving the keywords for each group, filed into a single working
folder. look up the keyword eval skill too, which has some expansion strategy. trigger this
skill when i'm asking to expand keywords by looking at competitors.
Pi reads the relevant existing skills, writes the new one, sanity-checks it, and loads it.
A chat message asking Pi to create a skill that repeats a competitor keyword-expansion workflow, listing the steps and the trigger, with Pi replying that it will read the relevant skills first.

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3. Read what Pi built

Open your skills folder and read the skill Pi saved: the steps it recorded, what it produces, and the references it points to for extra strategy. If anything looks wrong, tell Pi what to change and it edits the skill.
A skill protocol showing numbered phases with timings, a note on what it produces and what it hands off to, and a list of key design decisions, above a chat message asking Pi to generalise the skill across industries.

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4. Generalize it if you’ll reuse it widely

A skill built from one project often bakes in that project’s specifics. If you’ll run it across different businesses, ask Pi to lift the examples out so the steps work anywhere, including B2B: 
this skill is too specific to this company. generalize the examples so it works across a
range of businesses, including B2B ones, rather than just this account.
Pi rewrites the skill so the method stays and the company-specific detail becomes an example instead of a hard-coded assumption.

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5. Trigger it next time

Once the skill is loaded, it fires when you ask in its terms. For the competitor example, prompts like “expand keywords from a competitor”, “do competitor sitemap research”, or “what keywords am I missing versus this competitor” all trigger it, and Pi runs the whole sequence for you.
Your skills stay in your organization. A skill you create is available only to your account, so your processes stay private. To reuse one across several organizations, work with an admin to promote it so it applies to everyone.
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