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Claude Skills

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What Are AI Skills?

AI Skills are a concept used across many AI coding tools, including Claude and GitHub Copilot. They refer to specialised capabilities or functions that enhance the AI's ability to perform specific tasks or operations.

In Claude, skills are the capabilities and tools that agents can access to accomplish their work. They form part of the agent framework and enable agents to perform specialised operations within their domain.

Skills available to agents include:

  • File and code manipulation
  • Terminal execution
  • Testing and validation
  • Web fetching and searching
  • Code analysis and exploration
  • Debugging and diagnostics

Rather than being invoked directly by the user, skills are automatically selected and used by agents as needed to complete assigned tasks. When you dispatch an agent to accomplish something, it determines which skills are appropriate and uses them autonomously.

Learn How to Create Claude Skills

Here is a helpful guide on creating Claude skills from scratch: Guide To Agent Skills

Resources

Skills Library

Development

Writing

Media & Content

Planning

Security

Testing

Utilities