In China, a project for training AI agents on the knowledge of a departing employee has become popular — ForkLog: cryptocurrencies, AI, singularity, the future

# A project to train an AI agent with the knowledge of a fired employee became popular in China

In China, the Colleague Skill project has gone viral. It trains AI agents with the skills and knowledge of a company employee before they are laid off.

On the social network RedNote (known in the country as Xiaohongshu), people are actively discussing the open-source development of Colleague Skill. It has amassed more than 8,000 stars on GitHub. The developer positions the tool as a way to say goodbye to colleagues more effectively.

The service lets you “pass on” to an AI assistant the employee’s professional knowledge, how they work with information, and their communication style during chats and calls. To train it, you need to upload messages from work chats, documents, spreadsheets, emails, audio recordings, and screenshots.

Colleague Skill is capable of writing code according to technical specifications, answering questions, and even shifting blame to others.

The project emerged amid reports that more and more employers required employees to systematically document work processes and the logic behind decision-making, and then fired them. Management called the procedure “process optimization,” but in reality the data was used to train AI systems.

Users reacted negatively to the situation—they called the process “worker distillation.” An Anti distillation skill project has appeared online, meant to help people protect themselves from knowledge being copied.

近日，github上一个名叫“同事.skill”的项目火了。

On April 3, a blogger said she developed a “anti-distillation skill” project.
She said that we’re all out here to be exploited, and nobody wants to be turned into a skill and then lose their job—so she invented the “anti-distillation skill.” Hopefully everyone can live a little longer in this AI wave. pic.twitter.com/53OJZLSc7A

— Li the teacher isn’t your teacher (@whyyoutouzhele) April 3, 2026

It allows you to rewrite archived documents so that they become less useful for the AI agent.

Other users began posting repositories that propose digitizing a former girlfriend, your boss, or even yourself for business correspondence.

Recall that U.S. citizens are deeply concerned about progress in artificial intelligence and its consequences for unemployment.