How to Build Claude Skills: Anthropic's Complete Guide
Anthropic has released a detailed guide to developing Claude Skills, extensions that customize Claude for specific tasks. The guide covers planning, file structure, writing instructions, testing and distributing skills across the ecosystem.
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Claude Skills are a way to build specialized extensions for Claude that adapt the model to specific domains and tasks. Anthropic has published a complete guide to developing and deploying these features.
How do Claude Skills differ from an ordinary prompt?
A prompt solves a task in the moment, while a Claude Skill creates a reliable extension that Claude understands and uses over the long term.
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