Save Your Best Instructions: Projects, GPTs and Skills
Stop pasting the same long prompt. Save it once, test it, share it, and keep the master copy yourself.
Pick the instructions your team pastes most, like a brand voice, a quote format or a meeting recap. Write each one well, attach the right reference files and test it on three real requests. Then share it with the team, with one owner and a 90-day review. The master copy stays in your own document, so a model change, the move from Gemini Gems to Skills, the retirement of ChatGPT custom GPTs or a switch to another vendor comes down to copy and paste. No code, and it works with ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot or Gemini.
About 140 minutes.
Lessons
- What a saved instruction is, and what each tool calls it (15 min)
- Find the instructions worth saving (15 min)
- Write one well (25 min)
- Add reference files (20 min)
- Test it with three real requests (20 min)
- Share it, keep the master copy, and give it an owner (25 min)
- Capstone: three instructions your team actually uses (20 min)