Anyone can build a skill. Literally: "Build me a skill that does X." Done. That's not an edge.
That's democratized.
And it's great.
It means non-technical operators can ship automations without waiting for anyone.
But the more you build skills, the more you realize something.
Writing a set of instructions that e.g. Cowork follows is one thing.
Automating your actual process is different.
Instructions say "do this, then that."
Process automation is a little bit more complicated than that.
It requires understanding "how we actually work": the decisions, the sequence, the quality gates, the edge cases.
This is where most teams trying to automate work with skills get stuck.
'Because it forces then to be precise about something most have never written down: how their work actually flows.
The skill itself is easy to create.
The thinking behind it - what process you're encoding, how you're structuring it, what's shared vs. specific - that's where the real work is.
But that's where the real value sits too.