Skills teach Claude how to complete specific tasks in a repeatable way, whether that's creating documents with your company's brand guidelines, analyzing data using your organization's specific workflows, or automating personal tasks.

A Skill is a markdown file that teaches Claude how to do something specific: reviewing PRs using your team’s standards, generating commit messages in your preferred format, or querying your company’s database schema.

Skills prepare Claude to solve a problem, rather than solving it directly. The following is a table to help better disambiguating the difference between Tools and Skills and their capabilities: Now lets dive into how to build Skills by examining the skill-creator Skill from Anthropic’s skill repository ...

## When to Use This Skill - Use case 1 - Use case 2 - Use case 3 ## Instructions [Detailed instructions for Claude on how to execute this skill] ## Examples [Real-world examples showing the skill in action] ... This repository is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Oct 18: Major community repositories emerge: obra/superpowers skills library · Oct 17: Community publishes practical tutorials on DEV.to and Medium · Oct 16: 🎉 Claude Skills officially announced - Available across Claude.ai, Code, and API

Ours includes instructions for /advise and /retrospective commands, the skill template location, and rules about PR formatting. When someone clones the repo and runs Claude Code inside it, these instructions load automatically.

Review any Skills you download before enabling them. Use appropriate MCP connections for external service access. Visit our repository on GitHub for example Skills you can use as templates: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills.

October 21, 2025 - In Claude Code, open the plugin/marketplace panel and add anthropics/skills (or the specific Skill repo). Alternatively clone a Skill repository to your workspace. ... then choose between “document-skills” (for file generation) or ...

anthropics/web-artifacts-builder - Build complex claude.ai HTML artifacts with React and Tailwind · anthropics/mcp-builder - Create MCP servers to integrate external APIs and services · anthropics/webapp-testing - Test local web applications using Playwright · anthropics/brand-guidelines - Apply Anthropic's brand colors and typography to artifacts · anthropics/internal-comms - Write status reports, newsletters, and FAQs · anthropics/skill-creator - Guide for creating skills that extend Claude's capabilities

* For Claude Code: Add to ~/.claude/skills/ (personal) or .claude/skills/ (project). For OpenAI Codex CLI: Add to ~/.codex/skills/. Both use the same SKILL.md format. Clone the GitHub repository and copy the skill folder to your chosen directory.

Enable Code Execution and Skill loading in Claude. Upload the skill folder (or link to a Git repo with an SKILL.md).

Download the skill package from the linked repository (typically GitHub).

October 17, 2025 - For this tutorial, opt for "document-skills"—it previews capabilities like Word doc creation. Click "Install Now"; Claude Code downloads and registers the skills. Prompt: "Hi, can you make a Word document based on the architecture of this codebase?" Claude explores your files and invokes the "docx" skill from document-skills, then generates a structured report—outlining modules, dependencies, and diagrams—saved as a .docx file.

October 16, 2025 - Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed. Claude will only access a skill when it's relevant to the task at hand.

All repositories by Alireza Rezvani - Building the complete Claude Code augmentation ecosystem. ✅ Phase 1: Complete - 42 Production-Ready Skills

October 17, 2025 - According to the current docs, the frontmatter supports two fields—name and description—so well keep things lean and compatible (see the 2025 guidance in Skill authoring best practices). Create a new folder named after your skill. Example: ...

internal-comms - Create internal communications (status reports, leadership updates, 3P updates, company newsletters, FAQs, incident reports, project updates, etc) brainstorming - Transform rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured questioning and alternative exploration. family-history-research - Provides assistance with planning family history and genealogy research projects. tapestry - Interlink and summarize related documents into knowledge networks. ship-learn-next - Skill to help iterate on what to build or learn next, based on feedback loops.

Use Skill Seeker directly from Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code + Cline, or IntelliJ IDEA with natural language! # Clone repository git clone https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers.git cd Skill_Seekers # One-time setup (5 minutes) - Auto-configures ALL 5 agents!

October 16, 2025 - Claude’s new document creation abilities, which accompanied their new code interpreter feature in September, turned out to be entirely implemented using skills. Those are now available in Anthropic’s repo covering .pdf, .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files.