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Create Custom AI 'Skills' for Reusable Terminal Workflows

Turn repetitive prompts into reusable slash commands within your terminal.

Save frequently used workflows or complex multi-step prompts as custom slash commands to automate recurring development or marketing tasks.

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The Scenario

You find yourself repeatedly using AI to perform the same task, like generating social media covers or summarizing daily git commits.

Before & after

The old way

Repeating a multi-step prompt or re-configuring a complex CLI workflow manually for every new article or script takes 10–15 minutes each time.

With AI

Executing a saved skill via a slash command takes 10 seconds, and the AI handles the complex prompt engineering and CLI calls automatically.

The Prompt

/skills save [NAME] --prompt "[PASTE_YOUR_REUSABLE_AI_INSTRUCTIONS_HERE]"

Qwen Code allows you to save repetitive prompts and tool-chains as custom 'Skills' or reusable workflows that can be triggered via simple slash commands.

Source

Qwen Code Blog: AI Coding Updates and Guides | Qwen Code Docs
"workflows can be saved as slash commands and reused... /skills visual skill management"