gbsoss/skill-from-masters

Overview

This skill turns learning materials and quality examples into reusable, executable skills. It extracts clear goals, step-by-step procedures, quality criteria, and checklists so knowledge becomes repeatable work. It supports both explicit methodology documents and finished examples that must be reverse-engineered.

How this skill works

First it classifies the input as a methodology document (teaching intent) or an example (finished artifact). For methodology documents it validates suitability, extracts prerequisites, step sequences, checkpoints, and common pitfalls, then builds a how-to or checklist skill. For examples it analyzes structure, quality characteristics, and production steps, then reverse-engineers a template and checklist to reproduce similar outputs.

When to use it

• You read an article or guide and want an actionable skill from it
• You have a polished example (blog, design, code) and want the process behind it
• You need a repeatable checklist or decision framework derived from documentation
• You want to generalize multiple examples into a robust methodology
• You need concrete prerequisites, steps, and quality checks to operationalize knowledge

Best practices

• Validate input suitability: require clear goal plus repeatable steps or quality criteria
• Choose Path A for teaching-style docs, Path B for finished artifacts
• Be explicit about prerequisites and expected outputs for each step
• Include measurable quality checkpoints and common pitfalls with remedies
• Preserve and cite source information and ask clarifying questions if intent is unclear

Example use cases

• Convert a 'how-to' article on code reviews into a stepwise skill with a checklist
• Reverse-engineer a great technical blog post into a reproducible post-writing template
• Extract a product launch checklist from a PDF guide for operational reuse
• Create a decision skill to choose a database from a comparative article
• Combine several example proposals to derive a general PRD production process