Finish One Skill: Encode Your Process
Take the draft you started in Lesson 2.3 and finish it into a working .skill — a trained employee that does your recurring job your way, with your checkpoints built in. This is take-home artefact #2.
From draft to trained employee
A finished Skill runs the same way every time, across Claude.ai, Code and the API. The difference between training someone once and re-explaining the job every Monday.
Steps
The exact sequence — so it never improvises the important parts.
House style
Your voice and format — so output sounds like you, not "AI".
Checkpoints
Where it must stop and ask a human — the safety baked in.
Your Skill & its readiness check
Your SKILL.md
Readiness check
Test it once
Run the Skill against your own standard. The first time the assistant works "your way" automatically.
A finished Skill is a trained employee: it does your recurring job your way, every time, with your checkpoints built in. Revisit it when your process or the underlying tools change — Skills aren't set-and-forget.