Using Skills to Import WeChat Articles to Any Website
Skills real business scenario demonstration, teaching you how to automatically import WeChat articles to any website.
Lvsao, who is committed to always lagging 2 versions behind AI development trends, is here to talk about AI practice again. This time, it's about Skills.
Note: This is just for sharing ideas, not providing any "ready-to-use" solutions.
Video Demo
What are Skills?
For normal users, Skills are Prompts (natural language commands we usually input to AI), just stored in a document as standardized and process-oriented as possible.
For the industry, it's a protocol, similar to how Agents.md constrains Code Agents. Skills.md has become a universal AI industry protocol, and all AI large models and applications will adopt this protocol set.
In plain language, all AI applications have the ability to "read" and "call" skills that conform to the protocol specifications.
What are Skills for?
After we write personalized commands in natural language into a document, AI can follow the commands in the document one by one. That's it.
Simply put, it's an AI natural language version of N8N. It's just that N8N has a higher entry barrier and more rigid processes. AI Skills allow people to write a set of process standards as easily as writing a short essay.
How to Create Skills?
Most AI IDEs or even Chatbots can help you generate skills. That is, you just chat with AI like you normally do, asking questions and describing requirements, and finally let it generate a skill.md for you.
For example, Codex even comes with a default Skill called "Skill Creator". Once you show in the chat box that you want to create a skill, Codex will automatically call this skill and start guiding you step by step to encapsulate your business needs into a so-called skill.
What Skills Are Good At and Not Good At
Skills excel at repetitive tasks, and you have your own specification requirements. This "task" includes everything, not just coding. It can do all repetitive work!
It's not good at creation, nor is it for creating. Many people don't know what they want and just throw out a sentence like "I need a skill that can help me make money"...
Demo: Importing WeChat Articles to Other Production Environments
Step 1: Extract WeChat Content
"Extract WeChat content, clean it, and obtain relevant metadata." Including but not limited to: author, cover image, publish time, images, and everything else originally in the article.
We don't need to know how to extract or how to make extraction scripts. Just throw it to AI and let it help you make the scripts.
Step 2: Transfer Images to R2
"Transfer WeChat images to R2 storage bucket and get the best performance image format addresses." This step also requires preparing scripts in advance.
Step 3: Content Rewriting and UI Optimization
"Rewrite content, enrich your UI and your content." Here I use the Fumadocs documentation system, which has various MDX components.
Implementation Process
Extract Article Content
Use scripts to extract WeChat article content, including metadata (title, author, publish time, cover image, etc.) and body content.
Clean and Convert
Clean HTML content, convert to Markdown format, process image links, and prepare for uploading to R2 storage bucket.
Image Upload
Upload images from the article to Cloudflare R2 and get optimized WebP format image URLs.
Create MDX Files
Use Fumadocs components to create bilingual MDX files (zh-CN and en versions), adding appropriate UI components.
Verify and Publish
Run build verification to ensure all links and images work properly, then publish to the website.
Technical Points
Skills Protocol Specification
Skills.md files follow specific protocol specifications, including:
- Skill description and purpose
- Input parameter definitions
- Execution steps
- Output format
AI-Assisted Generation
You don't need to write complex Skills files yourself. Just:
- Describe your business needs to AI
- Let AI help you generate the initial version of Skills
- Iterate and optimize until requirements are met
Practical Application Scenarios
Notes
- Skills are not omnipotent. They excel at repetitive work with clear specifications
- Creative work still needs to be done by humans
- Before using Skills, think clearly about your business process and specifications
- Start with small tasks and gradually build a complex Skills system
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