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ChatGPT Plugins and Skills: Package Your Best Work

ChatGPT Plugins and Skills: Package Your Best Work is a self-paced AIvanced Academy course (6 lessons, 1h 30m).

Turn the tasks your team repeats into ChatGPT skills and plugins that anyone can run the same way. Test them, share them safely, and move your old custom GPTs before they retire.

Length: 1h 30m
6 lessons in 3 modules
Level: Intermediate
Certificate of completion
Price: $9.99 one-time, lifetime access

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About this course

OpenAI plans to retire custom GPTs (versions of ChatGPT that someone set up with their own instructions and files for one job) and points teams to plugins instead. A plugin packages skills (reusable instructions), reference files, and connected apps so a whole team can do a task the same way.

This course is for team leads, power users, and workspace admins at small and mid-size companies. You should already use ChatGPT for everyday work. You will learn how skills and plugins differ from projects, custom instructions, and memory; who can create and use them; how to write a skill that works the first time; how to test it, version it, and share it in a workspace; which admin controls matter; and how to keep a plugin safe with least privilege and no secrets. You will also build a migration plan for any custom GPT you rely on.

Every exercise gives you a copy-ready skill draft, a fallback for plans without skills or plugin creation (you build the same thing as a project), and a model answer. All examples use a fictional company, Tallowbrook Supply.

What you need: any ChatGPT account. Open Plugins in ChatGPT (or Settings > Plugins). If you see a Skills tab there, use it. If not, you'll build the same thing as a project, and every exercise shows you how. Plans and menus change often; the course says "at the time of writing" where that matters.

Before you start: this course assumes you already use ChatGPT for everyday work. If you use ChatGPT at work, take "ChatGPT at Work: Setup and Everyday Workflows" first. If you are new to writing prompts, take "Prompting Fundamentals" first.

Topics: chatgpt, skills, plugins, custom gpts, team sharing, automation

What you'll learn

Explain what skills and plugins are, and choose between a skill, a plugin, a project, custom instructions, and memory for a given need.
Check which ChatGPT plans can create skills and plugins, and pick the right fallback on a personal plan.
Turn a repeatable task into a skill with clear instructions, inputs, an output example, rules, and reference files.
Test a skill with five kinds of cases and keep a simple version history of your own instructions.
Share a plugin in a workspace with the right access level, and describe the admin controls for installation, roles, and actions.
Apply least privilege to a plugin's connected apps and keep secrets and personal data out of instructions and files.
Back up and migrate a custom GPT before its retirement date, or rebuild it as a project on a personal plan.

A Try It exercise called "Your first prompt": a short scenario about moving a team meeting from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., then numbered steps to send a prompt in ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Claude, paste the reply, and note one thing to keep or change. — An example from AI Foundations, Lesson 1. Lessons in ChatGPT Plugins and Skills work the same way: you do the task in your own AI tool, then a quick check explains the answer. Try this course's first lesson free

A quick check question about an AI tool that confidently states a rent late fee. The answer "It may be a guess, because the tool can't see Fernhill's leases" is marked correct, with an explanation of why asking again proves nothing and the fact should be checked in the lease. — An example from AI Foundations, Lesson 1. Lessons in ChatGPT Plugins and Skills work the same way: you do the task in your own AI tool, then a quick check explains the answer. Try this course's first lesson free

Course outline

Module 1: Skills, Plugins, and Your First Skill

Skills, Plugins, and How They Differ from What You Know (free preview)
Turn a Repeatable Task into a Skill

Module 2: Test, Share, and Keep It Safe

Test, Version, and Share Your Plugin
Safety Check: Least Privilege and No Secrets

Module 3: Move Your Custom GPTs and Check Your Skills

Move a Custom GPT Before It Retires
Final Knowledge Check

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