Custom Claude skills

Your team uses Claude every day, and everyone gets a different result for the same job, because each of them explains it from scratch. The skills you can download for free were written for someone else's business, so they don't know your templates, your clients or the way your team does things.

• A short list of the jobs your team does again and again, such as the client report, the proposal, the contract check or the month-end spreadsheet.
• Each job turned into a Claude skill, a set of instructions with your steps, templates and examples of good work that Claude picks up by itself whenever the job comes up.
• Each skill written with the person who does the job best, and checked on your past work against what they produced.
• Every skill shared to your whole team's Claude, so a new hire gets the same result on day one.
• Claude Cowork set up for the team where it helps, the desktop version of Claude that works through files and tasks for you, with your skills inside it.
• Connectors to your drive, CRM or accounts where a job needs them, so Claude can reach the files and records the job uses.
• The skills yours to keep, and your team shown how to change one when the job changes.

1. You send the jobs your team repeats, with a few examples of the work done well.
2. I sit with the person who does each job best and write it into a skill.
3. Each skill runs on your past work, and you compare the result with the real thing.
4. The skills go out to your whole team, and we walk through how to change them.

Anthropic released the skill format as an open standard, and ChatGPT reads it now too, along with the coding tools your developers use. So a skill built once works across the AI tools your team already has.

Source Agent Skills, overview