"How to get an international passport", "how to claim a tax deduction", "how to return a product" — the internet answers such questions eagerly, but most often with an article three years out of date: the fees have gone up since, the form has moved to another portal, and the list of documents has changed. The trip to the government office then turns into two trips — the second one with the missing certificate.
The "Paperwork how-to, step by step" skill builds the checklist from official sources: it finds the pages of Gosuslugi, the agencies and the regulations, reads them at the moment you ask, and takes the document list, fees and deadlines from there rather than from retellings. The finished guide is saved to your library — with a link to the official page behind every fact.
What it does
From a description of the task — what you need to arrange or obtain — the skill composes a step-by-step guide: what to prepare, where to go or what to click, how much it costs and how long it takes. If the procedure depends on your situation — region, status, timing — it asks one short question about what matters most, so the guide is about your case, not the national average.
How it works
- The skill finds the official sources for the procedure: Gosuslugi, the agency's site (the tax service, the interior ministry, the social fund), the law or the administrative regulation. Blogs and aggregators serve only as hints about where the primary source lives — never as the source of facts.
- It then opens two to four official pages and takes from them the list of documents, the way to apply (online or in person), the fees and online-application discounts, the processing times and the grounds for rejection. Rules change — the skill takes only what the page says now.
- From what it read it assembles a step-by-step checklist, with a separate block for the common rejection reasons and how to avoid them. If the sources disagree or a page is unavailable, the skill marks that right in the text.
- The finished guide is saved to the library in markdown, titled "How to arrange…" plus the task.
What you get
In the library — a guide you can follow to the government office: the steps in order, the documents, the addresses and forms, the fees, the deadlines, the common rejection reasons. Every fact rests on an official page with a link — any item can be double-checked in one click. In the chat — a short summary: the three key steps, the total fee and the timeline, and what to do first.
When to use it
Before any encounter with bureaucracy: a first passport for yourself or a child, a tax deduction for an apartment or medical treatment, a benefit, a license renewal, returning a faulty product. It's especially useful for the procedures you do once every few years: the rules have almost certainly changed since last time, and it's cheaper to learn that from the skill than at the agency's window with an incomplete set of documents.