Claude and ChatGPT Skills Explained: A Quick Guide to Repeatable AI Workflows

A hallmark of moving from tinkering with AI to getting real value from it is learning how to automate repeatable workflows. While many people are comfortable prompting AI tools, fewer realize they can go further by creating AI skills: defined capabilities you set up once and reuse across many prompts. Learn how these reusable capabilities can streamline your work, from generating polished marketing copy to transforming messy notes into structured reports. Explore how skills differ from prompts, GPTs, projects, and agents, compare how they work in ChatGPT and Claude, and build your first skill in Claude. This course also provides ready-to-use skill templates you can copy and customize.


Learning objectives
Define AI skills and explain their value.
Differentiate between prompts, GPTs, projects, agents, and skills.
Identify real-world business use cases for AI skills.
Evaluate your own workflows for repeatable AI opportunities.
Recognize differences between ChatGPT and Claude skills.