How to Use Your AI Markdown Files

Every file in our AI Markdown and Skills collection is a set of instructions for an AI assistant. You give the file to the AI, add your own material, and the AI follows the process inside it. This page explains what the files are, how to use them, and how to make them your own.

What is an AI Markdown file?

A Markdown file is a plain-text file with the ending .md. It opens in any text editor, such as Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. There is nothing to install.

Each file is an instruction sheet written for an AI assistant. It tells the AI what job to do, what to ask you for, the steps to follow, and how to check its own work. Instead of typing a long prompt and hoping you remembered everything, you hand over the file and the AI works from a tested process.

The files are not software and do not include AI access. You need your own account with an AI assistant. Each product page lists the assistants that can run that file.

What is inside each file

Every file is laid out the same way, so once you have used one, the rest feel familiar:

What this does: the job the file performs and what you get back.
Which AI assistants can run this: which assistants work, and on which plans.
Minimum information required: what the AI needs from you before it starts.
Files to upload: the documents to attach along with the instruction file.
Helpful but optional: extras that improve the result.
Instructions for the AI: the process itself.
Starter prompt: a ready-made message to copy, fill in, and send.

How to use a file in a chat

Download the file from your order confirmation email or from My Account > Downloads.
Open a new chat in your AI assistant.
Attach the .md file to the chat.
Attach the supporting documents listed under “Files to upload”.
Copy the starter prompt from the bottom of the file, replace the text in brackets with your details, and send it.
Answer any questions the AI asks. Each file tells the AI to ask for missing information instead of guessing.

Treat what comes back as a strong first draft. Review it before you use it, especially facts, figures, names, and quotes.

How to use a file as part of a project

Many AI assistants let you set up a project, workspace, or custom assistant that keeps files and instructions on hand for every chat. If you do the same job often, this saves you from attaching the file each time.

Create a project in your AI assistant for that kind of work, for example “Press releases” or “Sales research”.
Add the .md file to the project’s files or knowledge.
Add any material you reuse, such as your company description, brand guidelines, or boilerplate.
Start each new chat inside that project and send the starter prompt.

The Skills and Instructions files work a little differently. They change how the AI behaves instead of producing a document. For those, you can paste the “Instructions for the AI” section into your assistant’s custom instructions or project instructions, so it applies to every chat.

You can also combine files. For example, attach a Skills file together with a Tools file so the AI follows the process and gives you candid feedback along the way.

How to edit a file for your own needs

The files are plain text, so you can change them. Open the file in a text editor, make your changes, and save it.

Good things to customize:

Your details. Add your company name, audience, tone of voice, and standard wording, so you do not have to type them into every prompt.
The steps. Add a step you always want, or remove one that does not apply to you.
The output. Change the length, format, or sections of what the AI produces.
The quality checks. Add your own rules, such as words to avoid or facts that must always be confirmed.
The starter prompt. Rewrite it so the brackets match the way you work.

Two tips. Keep an untouched copy of the original file, so you can always go back. And change one thing at a time, then run the file, so you can see what each change does.

Keeping different versions for different purposes

One file can become several. Save a copy under a new name for each use, and edit each copy for its purpose. For example:

A press release file for product news, and another for hiring announcements.
A sales flyer file for each product line or each audience.
A prospect research file for each industry you sell to.
A messaging file for each brand or business unit.

Name the copies clearly, such as press-release-product-launch.md and press-release-new-hire.md, and keep them together in one folder or in separate projects in your AI assistant.

Need a file we do not offer?

If you have a job you would like an AI Markdown file for, tell us. Describe the task, what you would give the AI, and what you want back. We will review the request and see whether we can add it to our collection, so that you and others can use it.

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