I completely missed Anthropic introducing Claude Skills in October 2025. Skills is a folder of files containing instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed to perform tasks in a repeatable way. For example, instructions on how to create graphics for your eLearning storyboards or how to extract data from a report and add it to a reporting dashboard.

Simon Willison explains skills in this excellent post - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/#atom-everything

Anthropic Skills Resources:

GitHub repo - https://github.com/anthropics/skills

Cookbook https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/skills

Documentation -https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview

Added bonus, skills also work with other models.

If you're building and using skills, I'd love to know how.

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