# Quick Start: ChatGPT Skills

Canonical page: https://www.kuudo.com/docs/quick-start/chatgpt-skills/

Use ChatGPT skills when you want ChatGPT to follow a reusable workflow, apply task-specific instructions, or use bundled examples and resources for a repeatable job.

For the official reference, see [Skills in ChatGPT in the OpenAI Help Center](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001066-skills-in-chatgpt).

## Availability

ChatGPT skills are currently in beta. They are available in supported workspace plans, including Business, Enterprise, Edu, Teachers, and Healthcare plans.

Skills are also supported in Codex and the OpenAI API, but skills do not sync across products yet. OpenAI skills follow the open Agent Skills standard, so a skill can be downloaded from one product and installed in another compatible product.

## Open the Skills page

In ChatGPT:

1. Click your profile icon.
2. Select **Skills**.

The Skills page shows skills that are installed, created by you, and shared with you. ChatGPT includes `skill-creator` by default. When you ask ChatGPT to create, modify, or troubleshoot a skill, it can use `skill-creator` to guide the process.

## Create a skill in chat

Use this path when you know the workflow but want ChatGPT to help structure it.

### Copy prompt

```text
Create a reusable ChatGPT skill for this workflow:

Workflow name:
[name]

When ChatGPT should use it:
[trigger conditions]

Inputs the user will provide:
[inputs]

Steps ChatGPT should follow every time:
[steps]

Outputs ChatGPT should produce:
[output format]

Ask me any missing questions first, then generate the skill and tell me how to install it.
```

ChatGPT should ask follow-up questions, generate the skill, and prompt you to install it when it is ready.

## Create a skill in the editor

Use the editor when you want to build or manage the skill directly.

1. Open **Skills** from your profile menu.
2. Click **New skill**.
3. Select **Create with editor**.
4. Add the skill instructions, examples, and any supporting resources.
5. Save and install the skill.

## Upload a skill

Use upload when you already have a skill file or folder from another product or teammate.

1. Open **Skills** from your profile menu.
2. Click **New skill**.
3. Choose **Upload from your computer**.
4. Select the skill package.
5. Review and install it.

## Install a shared skill

Use this path for skills another teammate or workspace owner has shared with you.

1. Open **Skills** from your profile menu.
2. Select **Shared with you**.
3. Hover over the skill.
4. Click the **...** menu.
5. Select **Install**.

After installation, ChatGPT can automatically use the skill when your request matches the skill's purpose.

## Share a skill with your workspace

Turn strong workflows into shared workspace skills when teammates should use the same process.

1. Open **Skills** from your profile menu.
2. Hover over the skill you want to share.
3. Click the **...** menu.
4. Select **Share**.
5. Search for people or groups, or copy a direct share link.
6. Set access permissions for the skill.

Use limited access for workflows that include sensitive instructions, private context, or operational steps.

## Admin controls

Enterprise and Edu admins can control ChatGPT skills from **Permissions & roles**.

Admins can enable or disable:

- Skills usage.
- Skills publishing and sharing.
- Skills installing for workspace members.

While skills are in beta, Enterprise and Edu workspaces may have skills off by default until an admin enables them.

## Compliance notes

Workspace admins can use compliance logs to review metadata and audit events such as skill creation, sharing, updates, and installation.

ChatGPT conversations that use skills follow the workspace's data residency settings. For ChatGPT business plans, data shared with a skill is not used to improve OpenAI models by default.

## Verify a skill

After installing a skill:

1. Start a new ChatGPT conversation.
2. Ask for a task that clearly matches the skill description.
3. Confirm ChatGPT uses the expected workflow.
4. If it does not, update the skill description so the trigger conditions are clearer.

For Codex-specific skill installation, see the [Codex Skills quick start](/docs/quick-start/codex-skills/).