Agent Skills

What problem does it solve?

Users often find themselves repeating instructions or wishing Claude could do more. This Skill empowers you to extend Claude's core capabilities by creating custom "Agent Skills," transforming repetitive tasks into automated workflows and making Claude an even more powerful, personalized assistant.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Custom Skill Creation: Learn to define new, specialized capabilities for Claude using simple Markdown and optional scripts.
• Effortless Automation: Understand how Claude intelligently invokes your custom Skills based on context, reducing manual prompting and saving you time.
• Team Knowledge Sharing: Distribute project-specific expertise and utilities across your team via Git, ensuring consistent, high-quality automation for everyone.
• Use Case: Imagine your team frequently needs to summarize long technical documents. By creating a "Technical Summarizer" Skill, you can teach Claude your preferred summarization style and key extraction methods. Once shared, any team member can leverage this Skill, ensuring consistent, high-quality summaries without repetitive instructions.

Quick Start

Create a new personal skill directory

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/my-summarizer-skill

Create SKILL.md inside with frontmatter:

---

name: Technical Summarizer

description: Summarizes long technical documents, extracting key insights.

---

Then, ask Claude: "Summarize this document using my Technical Summarizer skill."