4 days ago - You don't need to explicitly invoke ... if you ask Claude to "Create a PowerPoint presentation about Q3 results," Claude will automatically use the PowerPoint skill if the feature preview is enabled....

4 days ago - /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills /plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills · After installing the plugin, you can use the skill by just mentioning it. For instance, if you install the document-skills plugin from the marketplace, you can ask Claude Code to do something like: "Use the PDF skill to extract the form fields from path/to/some-file.pdf"

6 days ago - These skills are designed to work seamlessly with their respective MCP connectors, enabling powerful integrated workflows. Improvement in Claude’s performance of specific tasks: Skills provide specialized capabilities for tasks like document creation, data analysis, and domain-specific work that requires supplementing Claude's general knowledge.

October 17, 2025 - Discover Claude Skills—modular tools enhancing AI for workflows like reporting and coding. This guide covers setup, benefits, step-by-step creation, and a JavaScript documentation example across Claude.ai and terminal—ideal for Pro users seeking efficiency.

1 week ago - After letting the brainstorming juice flow, I ended up with this skill: GitHub · What it does: every day I check in, log progress, track ideas, and try to maintain momentum. But my original workflow was locked into a specific folder structure and only worked for "building" type challenges. What if someone wanted to track a fitness challenge? A reading goal? A meditation habit? I decided to build a Claude Code skill that could track any type of challenge.

October 16, 2025 - The skills mechanism is entirely dependent on the model having access to a filesystem, tools to navigate it and the ability to execute commands in that environment. This is a common pattern for LLM tooling these days—ChatGPT Code Interpreter was the first big example of this back in early 2023, and the pattern later extended to local machines via coding agent tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI.

October 16, 2025 - It should include both what the Skill does and when Claude should use it. See the best practices guide for complete authoring guidance including validation rules. ... my-skill/ ├── SKILL.md (required) ├── reference.md (optional documentation) ├── examples.md (optional examples) ├── scripts/ │ └── helper.py (optional utility) └── templates/ └── template.txt (optional template)

October 17, 2025 - Skills are remarkably straightforward: folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads when it recognizes a relevant task. Think of them as custom training manuals. You’re building a financial model? Claude grabs your Excel expertise. Creating a presentation? Your brand guidelines and templates load automatically. Writing code?

November 21, 2025 - What makes it strong: Provides precise, actionable information Claude doesn't inherently have (exact hex codes, font names, size thresholds) with a clear description that tells Claude both what it does and when to trigger it. What makes it strong: Creative capability with clear boundaries, copyright protection built in, technical scaffolding for non-musicians, quality standards. name: frontend-design description: Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications.

October 26, 2025 - Using skill-creator as an example, it contains SILL.md, LICENSE.txt for the license, and a few Python scripts under teh /scripts folder. skill-creator does not have any /references or /assets. Skills are discovered and loaded from multiple sources. Claude Code scans user settings ...

October 16, 2025 - Skills require the Code Execution Tool beta, which provides the secure environment they need to run. Use Anthropic-created skills to have Claude read and generate professional Excel spreadsheets with formulas, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and fillable PDFs.

October 21, 2025 - The first skill I tested was “brand-guidelines”. So let’s say you have a webpage or document like this, but it’s not in your brand guidelines. ... What you do is go to Claude and write the following message. ... I wanted to have a publication that helped share tips and tricks from my consultancy where we implement ai for companies like the Olympic team, the Stock Exchange and other B2C companies. ... I'll help you code with AI.

October 18, 2025 - obra/superpowers - Core skills library for Claude Code with 20+ battle-tested skills including TDD, debugging, and collaboration patterns

October 19, 2025 - Claude Code just got better with the new Claude Skills, a way to teach Claude your workflows once and have it execute them every single…

October 22, 2025 - Today I dive into Anthropic’s latest feature that lets anyone create reusable workflows for Claude—no coding required. I break down exactly what Claude Skills are, how to build them from scratch, and how to use them inside Claude Code and Cursor to automate recurring AI tasks like generating PRDs, writing changelog summaries, and turning demo notes into follow-up emails.

October 17, 2025 - An Anthropic account and access to Claude (web, Claude Code, or API) ... Heads‑up: The minimal Skill only needs one file named SKILL.md. According to the current docs, the frontmatter supports two fields—name and description—so we’ll keep things lean and compatible (see the 2025 guidance in Skill authoring best practices). Create a new folder named after your skill. Example: Standardized-Report-Generator/

October 16, 2025 - This is critical—Claude uses this to determine when to invoke your Skill (200 characters maximum). Example: Apply Acme Corp brand guidelines to presentations and documents, including official colors, fonts, and logo usage.

November 15, 2025 - Your LLM context isn't a filing cabinet. Learn why Claude Skills beat MCP by saving tokens with progressive disclosure. Build your first skill today.

October 16, 2025 - Skills require the Code Execution Tool beta, which provides the secure environment they need to run. Use Anthropic-created skills to have Claude read and generate professional Excel spreadsheets with formulas, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and fillable PDFs.