The Pilot Skill
The Pilot Skill
One skill for your entire workday. Five modes. No prompt rewrites. No skill sprawl.
Stop installing twenty skills. Install one that handles everything a knowledge worker actually does in a day.
Five modes. One skill.
Plan
Daily and weekly priorities, time blocks, project sequencing. Every plan ships with a first action you can take in fifteen minutes.
Inbox
Drafts, replies, thread summaries, urgency calls. Three sub modes with calibrated tone.
Learn
Research, study notes, paper summaries, quick deep dives. Layered output: answer first, then context, then caveats.
Output
Any document, slide, post, brief, report, proposal, status, script. Format matched to medium. No meta commentary.
Triage
Decisions, status calls, meeting prep, meeting recaps. Recommendation, reasoning, risks. No fence sitting.
Two dozen tasks. Work and life.
What it sounds like at the keyboard.
Help me plan tomorrow. I have a deadline and three meetings.
Routes to P · Plan
Reply to this. They want a discount and I want to hold the line.
Routes to I · Inbox
Give me the gist of this thirty page report in three lines.
Routes to L · Learn
Write a two hundred word post on why most goal setting fails.
Routes to O · Output
Should I take the role or stay where I am?
Routes to T · Triage
What is the most important thing I should ship today?
Routes to T · Triage
Open SKILL.md format. Works everywhere.
SKILL.md is the open standard for AI coding assistants. For consumer chat tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude), paste the file as a system prompt or custom instruction. Either way, the install takes under a minute.
What you're actually buying.
The Five Mode Router
Verb based and noun based routing rules. When two modes apply, the verb wins. Documented edge cases.
Mode Specific Rules
Sub modes, output formats, length caps, voice defaults, and explicit guardrails for each of the five modes.
The Anti Patterns List
Every cliched AI move banned by name. No "great question". No "let me know". No em dashes. No reflex rule of three.
Voice Calibration
How to mirror a writing sample without copying surface tics. Sentence length, register, rhythm first.
Worked Examples
One concrete worked example for each of the five modes so the routing logic is obvious in action.
Handoff Rules
Clean defer logic for when specialist skills (spreadsheets, slides, code, design) are installed alongside.
Before you install.
Is this a prompt or a skill?
A skill. One SKILL.md file in the open Anthropic skill format. Drop it in your skills folder and it activates automatically when the request matches one of the five modes. No copy and paste each time.
Why one skill instead of fifty?
Most skill libraries are noise. Twenty narrow skills, all overlapping, none consistent. This one file handles the two dozen tasks above with a single routing logic and a single voice. Less context burned. Less drift. One thing to remember.
Does it work outside Claude?
Yes. SKILL.md is the open standard for AI coding assistants: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode. For consumer chat tools, paste the file as a system prompt or custom instruction. ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all accept the format. One file. Every major assistant.
Do I need any other skill to use this?
No. This is a generalist skill that handles every common workday task. When specialist skills are installed (spreadsheets, slides, document production, code), this skill defers to them cleanly. You can run it standalone.
How is this different from a long system prompt?
A long system prompt burns context on every call and is not portable. This file activates only when the request matches a routing trigger, is installed once, and travels with you across compatible tools. It is the difference between a habit and a sticky note.
What format do I download?
A single SKILL.md file. Plain markdown. Open it in any text editor. Drop it in your skills directory. Done.
Lifetime updates?
Yes. One purchase. Free updates as the routing logic and anti pattern list evolve.
Most skills do one thing. This one is the workday.
PROMPTLEADZ · THE PILOT SKILL · ONE FILE · FIVE MODES