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The Claude Skills Playbook
The one required file, the nine skill categories, and how to build your own. A plain-English playbook for Claude Skills.
A skill is a folder that teaches Claude how to do one job well. There is only one required file, and once you see how it fits together, you can build your own in an afternoon.
What's inside
- The anatomy of a skill, and the one file it cannot go without.
- The nine categories skills fall into, with a real example of each.
- How Claude decides when to reach for a skill, and how to write that trigger so it fires at the right time.
- A build walkthrough, from empty folder to a working skill you can reuse.
Who it's for
Anyone who keeps re-explaining the same process to Claude. Write it down as a skill once and stop repeating yourself.
Get the full guide
The complete version, with every diagram and example, is in the PDF.