Simon Willison • 2/11/2026

Skills in OpenAI API

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This technical article details the integration of 'Skills' into the OpenAI API, demonstrating how to use them via the shell tool. It explains methods for uploading skills and highlights a more direct approach using inline base64-encoded zip data within a JSON request, complete with a Python script example for counting words.

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