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ChatGPT
Skills
Reusable written instructions, optionally with steps and scripts, that ChatGPT applies to a task. You can create, upload, share or install them.
Which capability it is
- A saved method it follows (Packaged procedure)
The same thing at other vendors
Microsoft Copilot
skills — inside Copilot Cowork, paid licence
Perplexity
Skills (replaced Workflows, Sept 23, 2026)
Meta AI and Muse
skills (Muse) — built by Meta only
Details
- Status
- GA for workspace plans, according to secondary sources quoting OpenAI's Plugins help article. The Skills page itself says only "available to eligible" users.
- Part of
- ChatGPT (also Codex). A plugin can include skills.
- Plans
- eligible Business, Enterprise, Healthcare and Edu users. See Open checks for a reported conflict with OpenAI's pricing page.
- Admin must turn it on?
- In Enterprise and Edu, availability depends on administrator settings.
Learn
Where we teach it
Encode a method so someone else runs it: you take a task you personally do, encode it, and watch a colleague run it without you. It's in the longer class, or a private session for your team.
Register interest → Or: a session built around your own team's work →