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Introduction to Agent Skills

8 Topics • 22 Lessons

Teach Claude repeatable know-how with Skills - the SKILL.md format, progressive disclosure, scripts, and where skills run.

Course Contents

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1 lesson

Welcome & How to Use This Course

What Agent Skills Are

3 lessons

Skills: Folders Claude Loads On Demand

Skills vs Prompts vs Tools

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Anatomy of a SKILL.md

3 lessons

Frontmatter: the settings block

The Body and a Full Worked Example

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Progressive Disclosure

3 lessons

The Three Levels of Loading

Keep SKILL.md Focused, Link Out the Rest

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Writing a Great Skill

3 lessons

Start With the Description

Instructions, Examples, and Iteration

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Scripts, Resources & Arguments

3 lessons

Bundling Scripts and Reference Files

Arguments and Live Context

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Where Skills Run & Installing Them

3 lessons

The Three Places Skills Live

Invoking Skills: Auto, Manual, the API, and the SDK

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Building & Sharing Skills

3 lessons

Create With skill-creator, Test With Evals

Versioning, Distributing, and a Best-Practices Recap

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