Chinese Project Trains AI with Skills of Departing Employees

AI project in China trains with departing employees' skills.

A project called Colleague Skill has gone viral in China. It trains AI agents with the skills and knowledge of a company employee before their departure.

The open-source development Colleague Skill is being actively discussed on the social network RedNote (known locally as Xiaohongshu). It has garnered over 8000 stars on GitHub. The developer positions the tool as a more efficient way to “bid farewell” to colleagues.

The service allows an AI assistant to “inherit” an employee’s professional knowledge, information handling characteristics, and communication style during chats and calls. To train the AI, one must upload messages from work chats, documents, spreadsheets, emails, audio recordings, and screenshots.

Colleague Skill can write code based on technical specifications, answer questions, and even shift blame onto others.

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

Users reacted negatively to the situation, calling the process “worker distillation.” A project named Anti distillation skill has appeared online, aimed at helping protect against knowledge copying.

近日，github上一个名叫“同事.skill”的项目火了。

4月3日，一博主表示，她开发了“反蒸馏skill”的项目。
她表示，大家都是出来做牛马的，没人希望自己被做成skill，然后丢掉工作，所以自己发明了“反蒸馏skill”。希望大家在这个AI浪潮里都能活得久一点吧。 pic.twitter.com/53OJZLSc7A

— 李老师不是你老师 (@whyyoutouzhele) April 3, 2026

It allows rewriting archived documents to make them less useful for an AI agent.

Other users have started posting repositories that offer to digitize an ex-girlfriend, a boss, or oneself for business correspondence.

Americans are deeply concerned about progress in artificial intelligence and its implications for unemployment.