ChatGPT Skills are a fragmented mess: local and cloud libraries don't sync
foufou51 · reddit · 2026-08-25
The poster details how confusing ChatGPT Skills availability is: on web and iOS they're only accessible through the ChatGPT Work/Cloud tab, not in regular conversations; locally created desktop Skills don't sync with Cloud Skills.
This creates two separate environments—local desktop Skills vs. Cloud Skills—with no shared library, sync, or version history, making Skills impractical for everyday use. Claude's approach, by contrast, allows creating Skills in-chat and using them consistently across platforms. The poster hopes OpenAI brings Skills to regular chats with cross-platform sync, a shared library, and versioning.
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