SKILLS
Anthropic Agent Skills
by Anthropic
Overview
Anthropic’s Agent Skills feature and official repository of reusable Claude agent skill examples.
Details
Anthropic Agent Skills are reusable capabilities for Claude agents. Anthropic describes a skill as a folder of instructions, scripts, and resources centered on a SKILL.md file with required YAML metadata. The official anthropics/skills repository provides examples spanning document, design, technical, enterprise, and tool-use workflows. Anthropic’s documentation covers pre-built and custom Skills, while its API guides explain attaching Anthropic or custom Skills to Claude Messages API requests and managing custom Skill versions.
When to Use
Explore official examples of reusable skills for Claude agents. Build document, design, technical, enterprise, or tool-use workflows with Claude. Use pre-built or custom Skills through the Claude API.
Getting Started
- Read Anthropic’s Agent Skills overview.
- Browse the examples in the anthropics/skills repository.
- Follow the API quickstart for pre-built PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and PDF Skills.
- Use the API guide to attach Anthropic or custom Skills to Messages API requests.
Key Features
- •Official Anthropic repository of reusable Claude Agent Skill examples.
- •Examples for document, design, technical, enterprise, and tool-use workflows.
- •Support for pre-built and custom Skills.
- •API guidance for using Skills with Claude Messages API requests and managing custom Skill versions.
Capabilities
- •Reusable agent skills
- •Document workflows
- •Design workflows
- •Technical workflows
- •Enterprise workflows
- •Tool use
- •Custom Skills
- •Claude API integration
Last updated Sep 20, 2026