Claude Agent Skills: Zero-to-Production Guide
Introduction Claude Code introduces a powerful feature called Skills—a way to teach Claude repeatable, specialized capabilities that persist across sessions. Think of Skills as plugins for behavior: structured instruction sets that define exactly what Claude should do, when to do it, and which tools it can use. Unlike one-off prompts that you type into chat, Skills are persistent, discoverable, and automatically selected by Claude based on context. They transform Claude from a general-purpose assistant into a specialized agent that can reliably perform complex, domain-specific tasks. ...