Agent Skills with Anthropic

#Agent Skills with Anthropic

Agent Skills with Anthropic is a short beginner course that teaches you how to give Claude “skills” so it can do specialized tasks for you in a consistent way.

You learn what a skill is (a folder of instructions and files), how the ‎SKILL.md file is written, and why this is better than repeating the same instructions every time. You also see how skills are different from tools, MCP, and subagents.

Then you practice with Anthropic’s built‑in skills (like Excel and PowerPoint) to build simple workflows, such as analyzing a marketing campaign. After that, you create your own skills, for example: making practice questions from lecture notes or analyzing time‑series data.

In the later part of the course, you connect these skills to real development tools: using them with the Claude API (plus code execution and files), Claude Code (for code generation, review, and tests), and the Claude Agent SDK. You finish by building a research agent that reads docs, GitHub, and the web to create a learning guide automatically.