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[The AI Tool Report]

Claude Now Remembers How Your Team Works [Skills by Anthropic]

What Are Skills?

Skills are customized instruction packages that help Claude perform specific tasks more effectively.

Instead of typing the same instructions over and over, you create a skill once, and Claude uses it whenever it needs to.

A skill is just a folder with:

• instructions and rules

• scripts and code that can run

• templates and examples

• information about how your team works

When you ask Claude to do something, it automatically checks which skills might help and uses them.

You don't have to pick them yourself.

Why This Changes Everything

Right now, most teams face the same problems with AI assistants:

• everyone writes different prompts for the same task

• context gets lost between conversations

• best practices stay trapped with individual users

• new team members need extensive training on how we use Claude

Skills solve these problems by packaging expertise into reusable components.

• your excel formatting rules

• code review standards

• brand guidelines

• data analysis workflows

They become portable assets that work consistently across your entire organization.

The real power comes from composability.

Skills stack together automatically.

Ask Claude to create a quarterly report, and it might combine your data visualization skill, writing style skill, and compliance requirements skill without you specifying each one.

Your 5 min Setup Guide

[1] Enable Skills

• Go to Settings in Claude.ai

• Find the Skills section

• Toggle Skills on

• For teams - Admins must enable this organization-wide first

[2] Create Your First Skill

• Type: "Help me create a skill for [your task]"

• Claude activates the skill-creator skill automatically

Answer Claude's questions about your workflow:

• What task does this skill help with?

• What specific requirements do you have?

• What format should outputs follow?

[3] Review and Test

• Claude generates the skill structure

• It creates a SKILL.md file with instructions

• Test with a real task to see if it works correctly

• Refine by asking Claude to modify the skill

[4] Share with Your Team

For Claude.ai:

• export the skill folder

• share through your standard file sharing

• team members import into their Skills folder

For API users:

• upload through the Claude Console

• use the /v1/skills endpoint for version control

• share skill IDs with your development team

For Claude Code:

• add to ~/.claude/skills directory

• or install from anthropics/skills marketplace

• use version control to share with teammates

[5] Build Your Skill Library

Start with high-frequency tasks:

• daily report generation

• code review checklists

• data analysis workflows

• customer response templates

The Technical Bits [For Your Dev Team]

For developers using the API, you'll need:

• code execution Tool beta enabled

• messages API with skill parameters

• proper skill versioning strategy

Skills can include executable code, which makes them more reliable than pure text generation for structured tasks.

This means your Excel skills can actually run formulas, not just describe them.

My Take on This Update

This is the right direction for AI assistants.

We've been stuck typing the same prompts and keeping huge instruction documents.

Skills fix that problem.

What I like most is how it spreads knowledge.

When your best employee figures out a great workflow, everyone can use it through a skill.

This could change how companies use AI tools.

The danger is making things too complex.

Don't make a skill for everything.

Focus on tasks you do often where getting the same result matters.

I like that Anthropic kept this open.

You own your skills, manage them your way, and don't have to use their marketplace.

That's important for businesses.

They're the foundation for making AI assistants actually useful at work.

PS: Don't create a skill for everything. Focus on high-frequency tasks where consistency matters. You will see 10x returns.

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