Easel Skills
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A skill is a written procedure Easel follows when the work calls for it: how you like an earnings call summarized, the checklist you run on a new name, the format a weekly note has to land in. You write it once, and every session that needs it applies it — so you are not restating your standards in every prompt.
Skills live in the Skills category of My Library, and they appear only on accounts with Easel.
Write a skill
From the Skills category in My Library, use the + menu:
- New skill — write the procedure directly in Portrait, the same editor as a note.
- Upload skill — bring in a Markdown or text file you already have.
- New subfolder — group related skills.
You can also just ask Easel to write one for you — "write a skill for how I want quarterly recaps done" — and it will draft the procedure and save it to your Skills.
Writing a good skill
Treat it as instructions to a capable analyst who has never seen your process.
- Say what the output should contain and in what order, not just the topic.
- Name the sources to check and the ones to ignore.
- Include the judgment calls: what counts as material, what to flag, what to leave out.
- Keep one skill to one job. Several focused skills beat one long document.
Using a skill
Easel reads the skills relevant to a request on its own. You can also point it at one explicitly — mention the skill with @, or name it in the request.
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