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Practitioner guides for SharePoint AI Skills. What they are, how to ship them, where they fit, and what to watch for. Written from real work in client tenants.
Cowork Skills and SharePoint AI Skills: the same Markdown, three different lives
Cowork Skills and SharePoint AI Skills both run from a SKILL.md file. They are not the same thing. A practitioner comparison from someone who ships both.
Chain SharePoint Skills for a branded weekly sales report
Two Skills loaded together: one for the weekly sales analysis, one for the design system. Output is an interactive HTML report on brand, every week.
Reference files in SharePoint Skills: the orchestration pattern
Skills can load reference files for portable, reusable components. Keep SKILL.md as the orchestration layer and call references when you need them.
SharePoint.md: the file that gives your site a brain
SharePoint.md is the Markdown file that loads every time AI in SharePoint opens on a site. Site URL, library map, naming rules, all in plain language.
How I built a contract gaps analysis Skill in SharePoint
I built a SharePoint AI Skill that compares a base contract with a returned client copy and outputs a priority-ordered gaps analysis. Here is the prompt and the output.
SharePoint Skills vs Copilot agents vs Power Automate
SharePoint Skills, SharePoint agents, Copilot Studio, Power Automate. Four tools, four different jobs. A practitioner decision framework for picking the right one.
How to write your first SharePoint AI Skill in under 30 minutes
Pick the right workflow, use a six-field prompt template, test on three files, ship it to the team. The exact steps for a production-ready first Skill.
Extending SharePoint AI with Skills: the practitioner guide
Extending SharePoint AI with Skills, explained: what Skills actually do, the prompt I use, where they break in live client tenants, and what they still cannot do.
What are SharePoint AI Skills? A practitioner guide
SharePoint AI Skills are reusable Markdown files that turn multi-step AI workflows into shareable assets. Here is what they do, how they work, and what they change for M365 teams.