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Skill Creator Guide

Interviews you about a task you repeat every week and walks you through turning it into your own custom Cowork skill — a one-phrase trigger that runs the whole thing the same way every time. No coding.

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How to use it
It helps you pick the best workflow to automate, interviews you step by step, rewrites the steps as clear action instructions (4–8 of them), picks trigger phrases, then guides you to build it (via the built-in /skill-creator or Settings ’ Customize ’ Skills) and runs a first test. Best practice: pick a frequent, consistent, low-judgment task for your first skill.
How to invoke / keep it on
Say “create a skill”, “I do this every week”, or “teach Claude my workflow”; or type /skill-creator-guide.
20 powerful examples for Melinda Maria
Copy, tweak, make them yours. Just describe the task — Claude loads the skill automatically.
01"I build the same MM weekly sales recap every Monday from Shopify and ShipHero — interview me and turn it into a custom skill I can trigger with ‘run my Monday recap’."
02"Every wholesale buyer follow-up I do has the same steps — pull the account from NuORDER, check reorder history, draft a line-sheet email in MM voice. Help me package that into a reusable skill."
03"Turn my influencer reporting routine into a skill — it’s the same every week: top creators from ShopMy and LoudCrowd, attributed sales, a short summary for #marketing. Build and test it with me."
04"I prep the same way before every wholesale market — make me a ‘prep my buyer meeting’ skill that gathers the right ApparelMagic inventory and recent orders, and run a first test on a real account."
05"I write a new PDP for every product the same way — lead with the piece, ‘everyday luxury’ voice, benefits, care, sizing — turn that into a ‘write me a PDP’ skill I can trigger for any new Shopify SKU."
06"Every Klaviyo campaign brief I make follows the same shape — pull last send’s results, set the goal, draft subject lines and body — package it into a ‘build my campaign brief’ skill using Klaviyo."
07"My end-of-day CS summary is identical daily — theme the Gorgias tickets, flag urgents, list tomorrow’s follow-ups — interview me and make it a one-phrase ‘run my CS wrap-up’ skill."
08"I do the same monthly close summary in QuickBooks every time — revenue, top expenses, AR aging, a short narrative — turn it into a ‘monthly close summary’ skill and test it on last month."
09"Our social caption process repeats every drop — 5 Instagram captions, hashtags, a Pinterest description, all on-brand — make it a ‘caption this drop’ skill and run a first test on our charm collection."
10"I build the same inventory health check weekly — low-stock SKUs and reorder flags from ShipHero — interview me and package it into a ‘run my inventory check’ skill the #ops team can use too."
11"Every new wholesale buyer gets the same onboarding email sequence in MM voice — turn that repeated process into a ‘draft buyer onboarding’ skill that pulls account context from NuORDER."
12"I reconcile NuORDER orders against QuickBooks the same way each week — make it a ‘reconcile wholesale’ skill that produces a mismatch report, and test it on this week’s data."
13"My competitor scan is a repeatable routine — three jewelry brands, pricing, hero products, positioning, into a table for #marketing — package it as a ‘run competitor scan’ skill."
14"I prep our weekly #marketing report the same way every Friday — Shopify sales, Klaviyo results, ShopMy influencer sales into one page — turn it into a ‘Friday marketing report’ skill and run it once."
15"Every meeting I run ends with me turning notes into action items and dropping them in Asana — make that a ‘process my meeting notes’ skill and test it on today’s notes."
16"I repackage long blog posts into social the same way — Instagram, Pinterest, and an email teaser in ‘everyday luxury’ voice — interview me and build a ‘repurpose this post’ skill."
17"Our gifting/PR outreach follows a template — pull the creator from ShopMy, draft a warm personalized note in Gmail — package it into a ‘draft creator outreach’ skill and run a first test."
18"I do a daily morning brief by hand — Gmail highlights, today’s Google Calendar, urgent wholesale replies — turn it into a ‘morning brief’ skill I can trigger or schedule."
19"Help me build my very first skill — interview me to find a frequent, consistent, low-judgment MM task (you pick the best candidate from my week), package it into 4–8 clear steps, choose trigger phrases, and run a first test with me."
20"I write the same weekly site-performance note every Tuesday from Edgemesh and Shopify — conversion, speed, and any drop worth flagging — turn it into a ‘run my site check’ skill and test it once."
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