AI Agent Skills - spinningideas/resources GitHub Wiki

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. When used, skills make Claude better at specialized tasks like working with Excel or following your organization's brand guidelines.

Skills acts as intermediary between custom slash commands and subagents. They can contain more persistent context more and can power autonomous commands for injection and usage of said context, thus allowing for creation of useful automated workflows. Skills provide another set of contexts the agent can tap into which persists and evolves across sessions.

Another interesting part about SKILLS that is it can run bash commands and such. This makes it so that files in persistent memory folders like templates, rules and scripts, as well as some multi-step tasks that can be assigned and performed by a subagent to do, can ALL go into the SKILLS, meaning that this automatically reduces context window. Some mcps can be made out of a SKILL as well.

Furthermore, since skills data is portable and composable, its easier to share this amongst a team or organization to make sure everyone are adhering to procedures. This data set can also be used across anthropic products or potentially with others.

Skills Links

GitHub Repos Containing Skills

Skills Articles