SKILLs

AI playbooks for your content.

A SKILL is not a prompt template. It's a curated package of domain knowledge, component guidance, and constraints that teaches an AI model how to compose a complete piece of interactive content. You provide the topic. The SKILL provides the structure.

What's inside a SKILL

More than a prompt. Less than an app.

A SKILL pairs Modula components with the editorial and pedagogical decisions needed to assemble them well. The Video Lesson SKILL knows how to break learning objectives into units, when to use a quiz versus a flipcard, what makes a video accessible by default.

The AI doesn't have to invent any of that. It follows the SKILL, fills it with your topic, returns a finished piece. Across fifty trainers using the same SKILL, you get fifty pieces with the same structural quality.

lesson.skill.md

---
name: lesson
version: 1.4.0
accepts: [topic, audience, duration]
components:
  - dna-lesson-header
  - dna-reading
  - dna-flipcard
  - dna-quiz
structure:
  - opener (1 dna-lesson-header)
  - 3-6 units, each with:
      - explainer (dna-reading)
      - key points (dna-flipcard)
      - check (dna-quiz, 3-5 items)
  - summary (dna-reading)
constraints:
  - all media has alt text
  - quizzes have feedback
  - reading level matches audience
---

Public SKILLs

What ships on Pro.

Six SKILLs at launch, each maintained by Chialab. New ones are added as the catalogue grows; existing SKILLs are refined as the AI models change.

Lesson

Break a topic into interactive learning units — intro, key points, comprehension check.

Video Lesson

Same as Lesson, with embedded video, captions, and per-segment quizzes.

Map Scroller

A geo-narrative with GPS track and timed stops — for travel, journalism, history.

Story Scroller

Scroll-driven fiction or longform with media transitions between scenes.

Data Story

A scroll-driven explainer that walks a reader through a dataset, one chart at a time.

Training Module

SCORM-ready compliance and onboarding modules with assessment built in.

In practice

What a session looks like.

The user describes the goal. The AI invokes the SKILL through MCP. Modula returns components, structure, and constraints. The AI assembles the piece.

Create a 4-unit safety training on lifting heavy loads, for warehouse staff. SCORM-ready.

Loading the Training Module SKILL · drafting four units with intro, technique demo, scenario, and assessment · using dna-video, dna-scenario, dna-quiz, dna-progress.

Make the assessment ten questions and add a feedback screen at the end.

Updated. Unit 4 now has a 10-question dna-quiz with per-question feedback and a summary screen. SCORM package is ready to export.

Enterprise

Custom SKILLs for your workflow.

On Enterprise, Chialab builds SKILLs tailored to your domain, design system, and editorial conventions. A pharma compliance SKILL for a regulated industry. A textbook chapter SKILL for a school publisher. A product-tutorial SKILL for a SaaS onboarding flow. Whatever shape your content has, a SKILL can encode it.

Custom SKILLs remain Chialab IP unless contractually agreed otherwise; you get unlimited use across your subscription term.

Talk to us about custom SKILLs

Pharma compliance training with audit-grade traceability
Textbook chapters tied to a publisher-specific design system
Product onboarding flows with feature-aware tutorials
Newsroom-specific longform with custom narrative components
Internal knowledge bases with house-style enforced

Try a SKILL

Start with the Lesson SKILL — free.

The Playground includes the base Lesson SKILL and the educational component subset. Enough to compose a real lesson in your first session.

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