
Season 3, Episode 8: Skills, Plugins and Agents: Building Capability You Can Deploy
Moving past solo prompting means building a capability once and making it accessible across your entire team. In this episode of Zero to AI, Steve Wilson breaks down what custom skills, plugins and agents actually are, how they run inside platforms like Claude and Microsoft 365 Copilot, and how to direct their build without writing code. We look under the hood at instruction files, semantic trigger descriptions and data permissions, using a real design example from a regional engineering consultancy.
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