Skills are the difference between asking Claude to do a thing once and having Claude do that thing the same way every single time without you re-typing context.
If you've ever caught yourself pasting the same paragraph of "here's my brand voice and here are my buyer disclosures" into chat after chat, this workshop is what fixes that.
What we cover
- What Skills are, when to use them, and when a Custom Project is the better choice.
- The three Skills every agent should have on day one (we'll build all three in class).
- The structure of a maintainable Skill: trigger language, scope, and the body content that actually moves the needle.
- Cross-Skill orchestration: how to chain Skills so a single message kicks off a multi-step output.
- Maintenance: how to know a Skill has decayed and the 10-minute refresh cycle that keeps them honest.
How the time breaks down
First hour: theory and the three core Skills. Middle hour: hands-on building against your task list. Final hour: orchestration patterns and maintenance habits.
Who shouldn't take this
If you're newer to Claude than three months, take Claude Basics and Operations first.