From file to useful result
How to ask with this skill installed
Installing the skill gives your AI a method. Your request still has to provide the case-specific facts, constraints and expected output.
1Name the real task
Describe the decision or deliverable, not just the topic.
2Provide the evidence
Add source material, audience, limits and known facts.
3Define done
Set format, quality criteria and checks.
Adaptable starting prompt
Replace the brackets with your case
When to use it
Use this skill when:
- Creating any scientific document — reports, analyses, manuscripts, methods sections
- Writing any documentation — READMEs, how-tos, decision records, project docs
- Producing any diagram — workflows, data pipelines, architectures, timelines, relationships
- Generating any output that will be version-controlled — if it's going into git, it should be markdown
- Working with any other skill — this skill defines the documentation layer that wraps every other output
- Someone asks you to "add a diagram" or "visualize the relationship" — Mermaid first, always
Do NOT start with Python matplotlib, seaborn, or AI image generation for structural or relational diagrams. Those are Phase 2 and Phase 3 — only used when Mermaid cannot express what's needed (e.g., scatter plots with real data, photorealistic images).