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Claude Code Skills

Reusable instructions that Claude applies automatically.

Learn to build, configure, and share Skills in Claude Code — markdown instructions that Claude automatically applies to the right tasks at the right time. From creating your first Skill to distributing them across teams.

Self-paced • Free • Official Anthropic certification

Why This Matters

Stop repeating yourself to AI

Every time you explain your coding standards, your preferred patterns, or your project structure to Claude, you're wasting time. Skills let you write those instructions once and have Claude apply them automatically. This is the difference between using AI as a tool and having AI as a configured team member that knows your codebase, your standards, and your preferences.

Who This Is For

This course is built for you if...

Development teams

Want consistent AI behavior across the team

Tech leads

Setting standards for AI-assisted development

Solo developers

Building personal productivity systems with AI

Open source maintainers

Want to share Skills with contributors

DevOps engineers

Automating repetitive configuration tasks

Consultants

Creating reusable AI workflows for clients

What You'll Learn

Course topics

What Skills are and how they work in Claude Code
Creating your first Skill from scratch
Writing effective Skill instructions in markdown
Configuring when Skills activate automatically
Sharing Skills across your team
Debugging and troubleshooting common issues
Advanced patterns for complex workflows
Best practices from Anthropic's engineering team
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