heise offer: From Skill to Plugin: Connecting AI with Tools and Data

What the webinar is about

The webinar, called "From Skill to Plugin: Connecting AI with Tools and Data", shows how to add connectors to single AI skills. The result is a plugin, a ready-to-use package. The event is for specialists and managers who already use generative AI (AI that creates text, images or other content) for repeated tasks.

Key ideas in plain words

A skill is a set of instructions that tells the AI how to do a task. Many tasks also need outside help, such as current news, files stored in a company system, or a place to save results. Tool use means the AI calls these tools, reads what they return, and uses the results for its next steps. Connectors are the links that connect the AI to outside apps and data sources.

Key facts

• Date: November 11
• Organizer: heise KI PRO
• Audience: specialists and managers who already use generative AI for recurring tasks
• Helpful but not required: basic prompting experience and an understanding of skills
• Attending an earlier webinar is not needed

Topics covered

The webinar explains the connection standard MCP and the difference between read-only access and actions that create or change content. It also covers permissions and how to check results. Attendees will see how to build and test their own plugins with AI help, and compare plugins and Copilot Agents across ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft 365 Copilot. It also looks at reusing older GPT instructions and reference files as skills, and at sharing plugins and the line between AI workflows and tasks that run on their own.

Why it matters

Many AI tasks need more than good instructions. They need safe access to the right data and tools. Knowing when AI can only read information, and when it can change it, helps people avoid mistakes. After the webinar, participants should be able to sort skills, plugins and connectors, pick suitable tools for their own work, and check that the parts work together.