# How It Works
Browse verified skills. Install with confidence. Refine for your campus. Share back with the community.
The Refinery: Community Skill → Your Expert
A proven set of AI instructions from the marketplace — like “Grant Writer” or “Enrollment Strategist”
Upload your documents. Our AI rewrites the skill with your language, data, and processes baked in.
Saved to your account, distributed from your storefront. Not a skill with an appendix — a skill rewritten to be yours.
$ browse --catalogBrowse skills built for your world
Skills are organized by the categories you already think in — Admissions, Financial Aid, Student Affairs, Academic Operations, IT, Compliance, K-12 Administration, and more. Each listing tells you exactly what the skill does, who verified it, and what data it touches.
$ install --confidenceInstall with confidence
Every skill in the catalog has passed community verification. You'll see who reviewed it, when it was last tested, and any known limitations — before you install. One click adds it to your Claude environment.
$ refine --campusRefine it for your campus
No two campuses work the same way. Add your institutional context — your terminology, your policies, your systems — and generate a version of that skill that fits your exact workflow. No code. No configuration files. Just context in, skill out.
Review the output. Edit it further if you want. It's yours now.
“Draft a grant proposal that highlights the institution's research strengths and aligns with the funder's priorities...”
“Draft an NSF proposal highlighting Riverside University's STEM+ initiative and the Nguyen Lab's published results in...”
$ test && shareTest it. Trust it. Share it.
Run your refined skill in your own environment. When it works the way you need it to, publish it back to the marketplace as a vouched expert skill — tagged with your role, your institution type, and the specific problem it solves.
Password-protected for internal use at your organization
Open for anyone to discover and install
Claude Desktop, Web, Claude Code, or project files
$ catalog --growThe catalog grows. The community gets stronger.
Every skill that gets refined and shared makes the next person's job easier. Every review makes the catalog more trustworthy. Every campus that participates makes the whole network smarter. This isn't a product with a roadmap. It's a community with momentum.