How to use skills: teach SPREVA's AI your way of editing, once

Open Brand, then Skills, and make a skill: a name, a line on when to use it, your instructions and, if you like, reference files from your library. Or import a SKILL.md you already have. From then on, Studio's AI and the AI agents you connect follow the skill whenever a request fits it, or whenever you name it.

A skill is an editing playbook for the AI, kept in your workspace. Each one has:

• A name, which you can use in a request to call it.
• When to use it: one or two sentences the AI reads to decide whether the skill fits.
• Instructions, in plain text or markdown: the steps, the rules, the things to avoid.
• Reference files from your library: a sample clip, a logo, a still that shows the look.

A skill pays off for anything you make more than twice:

• A series format: how every episode of your Shorts opens, how long it runs, where the title sits.
• A look: a torn-paper collage style for intros, with its colours, its pace and its sounds.
• Your brand's rules for every video: caption style, the end card, the music you use and the music you never use.
• A client's house rules, in that client's workspace, so their videos look like theirs.

1. 1

   Open Brand, choose Skills and press New skill. Give it a name and say when to use it.

2. 2

   Write the Instructions: what the video is for, the steps in order, the rules, and what to avoid. Short, concrete sentences work best.

3. 3

   Add Reference files from your library, if a picture says it faster than words.

4. 4

   Leave Use this skill on. Everything saves as you type.

The AI does not read every skill in full for every request; it reads each skill's When to use it and opens the one that fits. So make that line specific. "For videos" fits everything and helps nothing; "For 30 to 60 second game theory Shorts with a hook in the first two seconds" tells the AI exactly when this playbook applies.

If you keep your editing rules in a SKILL.md for Claude or another coding agent, press Import SKILL.md. The name and the description at the top of the file become the skill's name and When to use it, and the rest becomes its instructions. Importing a file with the same name again updates that skill and keeps its switch and reference files.

In Studio, ask the AI for the video you want. If the request names a skill, the AI loads it in full before it starts; if not, it picks the skill whose When to use it fits, or works without one. The same goes for an AI agent connected to SPREVA, such as Claude or ChatGPT: it looks at your skills first and reads the one that fits.

Whatever the AI makes stays an editable Studio project, so you can still change any cut by hand. Why a video made by an AI agent should stay editable.

Skills belong to the workspace, so everyone who asks the AI for a video there gets the same playbook, and each client's workspace keeps its own. Owners, Admins, Publishers and Editors can write and change skills; Analysts and Viewers can read them. A workspace can hold up to 50.

Take the video you make most often, write down how you make it in ten lines, and save it as a skill. Then ask Studio's AI for the next one by name. Skills are part of Studio, on the Pro and Business plans, and every plan starts with a 7-day trial.