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Level 2

Give it your context

It knows your business, your voice, and your never-do list before you ask, and it can find things in your files.

Done when: Context saved in your assistant, a prompt that uses it scored 75 or better, and one answer cited from your own files.

Your assistant

The steps work in any of these. Pick yours and each lesson shows where the setting lives.

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Teach it how you write

What closes it

  • Context saved in your assistant, evidence reviewed (not yet)
  • A prompt that uses your context, scored 75+ (not yet)
  • An answer cited from your own files, with what you kept outsafety (not yet)
  • Corrections saved as a skill, with the lines you did not say struck out (not yet)

Lessons, in order

  1. 1Teach it how you write
  2. 2Save your context so you never paste it againgate
  3. 3Wrap up before you close
  4. 4Keep a list of your corrections
  5. 5Turn your corrections into a saved skill
  6. 6Make it interview you
  7. 7Name the outcome, then split the effort
  8. 8Let it find things in your files (and keep the rest out)
  9. 9Shape the folder around the work

Level 2 skill · Brief

Write the one page brief

Turns what you agreed into one page you can hand to any chat as standing context.

Where to save it
  • Claude. Upload the skill folder as a skill, or paste the text into a Project's instructions. In Claude Code, put the folder in your skills folder.
  • ChatGPT. Paste the text into a Project's instructions or a custom GPT's instructions, or into your custom instructions.
  • Gemini. Paste the text into a Gem's instructions.
  • Copilot. Paste the text into a Notebook's instructions, or keep it in a file you attach when you need it.
  • Any other assistant. Keep the file. Paste it at the start of a chat, then say which job you are on.

Then run it on one real job and change the wording until it sounds like you.

Licence and credit

This skill is adapted from the to-spec skill in an open source set at github.com/mattpocock/skills ↗. The wording and examples are rewritten for a small business. The original licence travels with it. Every download carries NOTICE.md, and the copied text ends with a credit line.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Matt Pocock

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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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One skill for each level from 1 to 6. See the whole kit

Code route: a context file in the terminal · optional

The same context as a file your coding agent reads at the start of every session. Needs a paid plan and a terminal.

Class weeks 2, 4 feed this level · The long version: Context ↗