Skills
A collection of Claude Skills by use — useful agent skills you can apply right away, plus a beginner’s guide to what skills are.
4 articles
Skills vs. CLAUDE.md vs. MCP: When to Use Each
Skills, CLAUDE.md, and MCP all extend Claude, but they solve different problems. Here's how to tell them apart and when to combine them.
What Are Agent Skills? — A Simple Guide from Scratch
Understand Claude's Agent Skills without any coding knowledge. Covers the 'folder (recipe card) that records how to do a task' analogy, the SKILL.md structure, progressive disclosure, pre-built vs custom, and safe usage — at a beginner's level.
Claude Skills by Use Case: Which Agent Skill for Which Task
How to use Claude Agent Skills by use case: pre-built pptx/xlsx/docx/pdf document skills, progressive disclosure, task-to-skill mapping, and custom skills — per official docs.
Claude Skills Library: Where to Get Which Skills (2026)
Where do useful Claude Agent Skills come from? Pre-built document skills (pptx, xlsx, docx, pdf) and the Claude API skill, the public anthropics/skills repo, and building your own — a catalog of verified, real skills with sources from the official docs.