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A HireData skill is a set of written instructions that teaches your AI assistant how HireData does one job — writing an email template, diagnosing an automation, planning an activation. There are two ways to get HireData’s skills into your assistant. This page covers the manual one: you paste a prompt, your assistant fetches the instructions and hands you a file, and you upload that file yourself. About two minutes per skill. If you can install the plugin, do that instead — it is one step, it includes the HireData connection, and it updates from one button.
A skill teaches your assistant how HireData does a job. It does not let your assistant see or change anything in your workspaces. For that you also need the HireData MCP connection — the link between your assistant and your HireData account. Set up both, and you have what the plugin gives you.

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Install skills in Claude

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Install one skill

Start with one. Once you have done it once, the rest work exactly the same way.
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Let Claude create files

In Claude on the web, click your name in the bottom-left corner and go to Settings > Capabilities. In the Claude desktop app, the same page sits under Customize.Switch on code execution and file creation. Claude uses this to build the file you are about to download; if it is off, Claude will tell you it cannot create files.No switch there, or it won’t stay on? You are probably on a Team or Enterprise plan, where an Owner controls it in Organization settings > Skills — both Code execution and file creation and Skills have to be on. Ask them to switch it on, or to install the plugin for everyone, which is less work for both of you.
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Ask Claude to build the skill file

Start a new conversation and paste the prompt below. It does not install anything yet — it asks Claude to build one file, which you upload in the next step.This prompt builds the Create email templates skill. To build a different one, replace hiredata-create-email-templates with another folder name from the skill list further down this page. It appears twice — once in the first line, once in the web address — so change both.
Claude replies with a zip file. Download it — it lands in your Downloads folder.
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Save it as a skill

In Claude, go to Customize > Skills, click [Add], choose the option to upload a skill file, and pick the zip you just downloaded.The skill now appears in your list, switched on.
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Check that it works

Start another new conversation — skills only load when a conversation starts — and ask something the skill is for, for example: “Design an application acknowledgement email for candidates. Show me a preview and do not send anything.”Claude names the skill as it starts working. If it doesn’t, see Troubleshooting.

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Install all of them at once

One prompt builds all of them. It fetches every skill file in the repository, which takes a few minutes — leave the tab open until it finishes.
Upload each zip through Customize > Skills > [Add].
Using Claude’s Cowork mode? Ask for .skill files instead of zips — “send them to me as .skill files” — and Claude delivers files you can save to your account straight from the session.

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Install a skill in ChatGPT

Custom skills in ChatGPT need a Business, Enterprise, Healthcare, or Edu plan. On Enterprise and Edu an administrator has to switch skills on first. Personal skills do not sync between the desktop app and the web, so add them in the one you use every day.
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Ask ChatGPT to build the skill file

Use the same prompt as in Install one skill, step 2. ChatGPT returns a zip to download.
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Upload it

Go to chatgpt.com/skills (or Skills in the desktop app), click Create, then Upload from your computer, and pick the zip.ChatGPT scans an uploaded skill before it becomes active, so it may be a minute before you can use it.
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Check that it works

Start a new chat and ask something the skill is for.
If you use the ChatGPT desktop app, installing the plugin is quicker and also sets up the MCP connection.

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Use a skill once, without installing it

Assistants that can’t install skills can still follow one for a single task. Nothing is installed. You give the assistant the link each time you want it.
This works in Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT on the web, or any assistant that can read a public web page. Replace hiredata-plan-activation with whichever skill fits the task, and pair it with the HireData MCP connection so the assistant can also reach your workspace.

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The skill folder names

Use these exactly as written. HireData skills for your AI assistant explains what each one does. HireData adds skills over time, so check the repository for today’s list, or use the check prompt.

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Troubleshooting

  • Your assistant says it can’t reach the files. It needs permission to fetch web pages — web search and fetching in Settings > Capabilities. If your organisation has switched that off, the plugin route is your only option; ask your AI administrator to allow the HireData marketplace instead.
  • The upload is rejected. Open the zip and check it looks like this — the skill folder first, SKILL.md inside it:
    If a second folder is wrapped around that, paste this to your assistant: “Rebuild the zip so the skill folder itself is at the top level, with nothing wrapped around it.”
  • The skill uploads but never triggers. Skills load when a conversation starts. Open a new conversation and try again, and check the skill is switched on in Customize > Skills.
  • You can’t upload skills at all. On Team and Enterprise plans an Owner can switch off user-created skills. Ask them to distribute the plugin through your organisation catalogue instead.
  • Nothing happens in your HireData workspace. Skills describe the method; the MCP connection provides the tools. Set up both.

Keep them up to date

Skills installed this way do not update themselves. Here is how to check.

Install the plugin instead

One step for every skill plus the MCP connection, and one button to update.

Related topics

Install the HireData pluginHireData skills for your AI assistantKeep your HireData skills up to date