What people are saying about agent skills.

Simon Willison’s latest essay on Claude Skills feels like the quiet unveiling of a new software layer for AI. | Taylor Black

Simon Willison’s latest essay on Claude Skills feels like the quiet unveiling of a new software layer for AI. Each “Skill” is a self-contained folder—a bit of Markdown, code, and intent—that Claude can load only when needed. No prompt engineering, no massive context windows. Just composable intelligence. The idea scales like early APIs did: portable, swappable, shareable. Skills can live in Git repos, form toolchains, or define local expertise. The simplicity is what makes it powerful—and risky. True capability now depends less on bigger models and more on how safely we execute what they can already do. Where we once built prompts, we may soon be curating skill ecosystems. https://lnkd.in/gkH3S-e9 #AItools #ProductDesign #ComposableIntelligence

5 Claude skills I use to run my LinkedIn (full guide)

Video tutorial, slides, and the actual skill files from my live session

First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent

Plus Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time

Agentic Engineering Patterns

Plus vibe coding my dream macOS presentation app, Gemini 3.1 Pro and lots more

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Plus Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Code — the companion guide

Companion piece to the skills explainer, focused on Claude Code specifically.

Ruben Hassid on LinkedIn

Where Ruben cross-posts his Substack work and shorter takes on Claude + skills.

How I built an AI agent that creates and posts viral LinkedIn content

End-to-end build log of an agent that researches, writes and ships LinkedIn posts.

anthropics/skills

Anthropic's official skills repo — the source of truth for the spec and reference skills.

Awesome Claude Skills

Curated awesome-list of Claude skills — a great browsing surface to find inspiration.

Claude Skills — the main explainer

Ruben's flagship piece on what skills are and why they matter. Cross-posted to LinkedIn + X.

Claude For Dummies

Broader plain-English guide to Claude that includes a section on skills.

I built a custom AI skill for my mom's crochet Instagram

Practical, non-developer build of a Claude skill for a small handmade business (@kala.yarn).