Original author: Biteye core contributor Denise
Original editor: Biteye core contributor Denise
As a content creator, you have likely gone through a process like this:
Research → Choose a topic → Write content → Self-doubt → Revise repeatedly → Formatting torture → Publish → No one reads.
The problem isn’t that you aren’t working hard, but rather that: it’s all based on feeling, information is chaotic, topic selection stalls, you don’t know where the issues are after finishing writing, formatting takes time, output is slow, and quality is unstable.
The solution is to reconstruct the repeated steps within this entire process using "skill" to create a content workflow. By writing out these skills, you can turn implicit experiences into explicit tools, making the entire chain from information gathering to final output more systematic, significantly improving efficiency and quality.
This article focuses on teaching you how to write your own skills, and provides three core practical skills as examples from the actual process of content creators, along with SKILL.md standard format, to help you get started faster.
1. What is "skill" based content creation?
In simple terms, it means turning the things you do repeatedly into a set of executable “instructions.”
When you write your experiences as skills, several things will happen:
- Make vague experiences replicable: Not knowing how to transform information into topics after collecting it, or not knowing how to check after writing a draft... After writing it as a skill, you can operate according to standard procedures every time.
- Greatly reduce repetitive inefficiency: Avoid starting from scratch every time; speed up the steps involved in topic selection, auditing, formatting, etc.
- Enhance output quality and stability: With clear steps and output standards, the quality of articles becomes more controllable.
- Build a personal content creation system: Combining multiple skills creates a complete chain from information gathering → topic selection → writing → auditing → formatting → publishing.
2. Don’t be afraid, beginners! The tutorial is as follows
Writing skills is actually very simple; you only need one folder + oneSKILL.md file
Step 1: Install Skill Creator (your “skills manufacturing factory”)
Before officially starting to write skills, it is highly recommended to install Skill Creator first.
It is not used for executing a specific business, but is specifically designed to help you (and AI Agent) write, test, validate, and package new skills faster and more standardized.
Its core uses are threefold:
- Skill initialization: Comes with an init_skill.py script. As long as you have a new idea, you can generate a standard skill folder template with one click, which already includes the correct SKILL.md structure, greatly reducing manual creation errors.
- Standard guidance: It comes with a complete “skill writing guide” that teaches you how to break down complex business logic into instructions, steps, and output formats that AI Agents can easily understand.
- Automated packaging: Comes with package_skill.py and quick_validate.py. After writing the skill, it can automatically perform safety checks and structural inspections, then package it into a standard .skill file with one click, making it easy to use, back up, or share with others.
With it, your efficiency in writing skills will increase several times, and beginners will also find it harder to make mistakes.
Step 2: Use Skill Creator to initialize and write a skill
Once Skill Creator is installed, you can start creating your first skill.
The whole process is super simple: use the tool to initialize the template → continuously describe your needs in natural language → let AI help you refine → test and iterate.
The core skill is to continuously describe your needs. Don’t aim to write perfectly at once; instead, explain your experience step-by-step as if chatting with a patient assistant. AI will help fill in and optimize your SKILL.md based on your descriptions.
SKILL.md is the most critical file; it must contain two parts:
1.Metadata
Used to inform the AI Agent what this skill is called and its trigger keywords.
description: A detailed description of what this skill does and in what dialogue scenarios it should be triggered (this determines the AI Agent's calling success rate).
2.Core instructions
Use specific steps to teach it how to perform tasks.
Beginner Tips: After finishing, use Skill Creator's quick_validate.py to check, then package for testing. It’s okay if it’s not perfect; just iterate a few more times.
3. Practical examples: Create 3 useful skills for content creators
1. Content Topic Selection Skill
This skill specifically addresses the most common pain points for content creators: “too much information, not knowing what to write, and topics that are not engaging enough.”
Core idea:
As a content creator, the key to writing hit articles is that you must closely follow current trends, especially those points that are being intensely discussed or provoking strong emotions on X. Trend filtering tools like XClaw are very useful for identifying items with high discussion volume, significant controversy, or strong astonishment, and then planning truly shareable topics by combining platform characteristics and audience profiles.
2. Content Quality Auditing Skill
This is a specialized auditing skill for X content before publishing, and it is very practical!
By 2026, X has fully shifted to a Grok-driven AI recommendation algorithm, which not only "reads" the content of each tweet but also analyzes semantics, user behavior, and historical signals. This has led to many previously effective posting habits now being easily suppressed:
- External links are severely devalued, with visibility for non-Premium accounts dropping significantly;
- Excessive marketing, strong CTAs, repeated hashtags, and traces of AI generation can trigger commercial content recognition or low-quality tags;
- Shadowbans / visibility suppression (not a complete ban, but content is not recommended to more people) have become more covert and intelligent, often leading to your posts being "unseen" without knowing the reason;
- AI-generated content that isn’t appropriately disclosed also faces increasingly strict detection and penalties.
If your content is not audited in advance, it can easily be "quietly limited," wasting your creative time.
3. Public Account Formatting Skill
This skill has many existing versions on X and GitHub, but most either require payment or have limited functionalities (fixed templates, unable to personalize adjustments).
In fact, creating your own is not difficult at all!
The core pain point of public account formatting is that after writing the article with Markdown, you still need to manually adjust the format—bolding key points, optimizing subtitle hierarchies, inserting dividers, handling image placeholders, adding read the original button, etc., all while ensuring overall aesthetics, professionalism, and personal style.
The advantages of making this skill yourself:
- Completely free, with no functional restrictions
- Can be fully customized to your personal style (such as fixed opening statements, specific emoji usage rules, personal brand color tones, exclusive endings, etc.)
- Can seamlessly integrate with the previous x-audit: first audit content quality and risks, then automatically format, achieving a “audit + formatting” workflow.
Currently, my skill workflow:
- Read Markdown files
- Extract title/author/cover from frontmatter
- Apply biteye-modern formatting → HTML
- Scan image placeholders → Upload to WeChat material library
- Call WeChat draft/add API → Draft box
Throughout this process, you only need to provide the Markdown content; all the tedious format adjustments, API calls, and material handling tasks are left to the AI Agent to complete.
4. In conclusion: Skills are essentially your “cognitive assets”
A good creator should be a constantly evolving system.
The three skills mentioned in this article are just the tip of the iceberg in the creative workflow. In the AI Agent ecosystem, each skill is modular, capable of being disassembled, reorganized, and evolved like Lego. I hope everyone can play with more variations based on this.
Go write your first SKILL.md. Don’t be afraid of its roughness; all hits and deep thoughts originate from a crude automated idea. If you have better ideas during the writing process or get stuck on a certain API, feel free to communicate with me in the comments.
The future belongs to those who make good use of tools, and even more so to those who define the tools.
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