Post caption
Everybody’s talking about Claude Code but I’m surprised at how little people are using Claude Skills – which is honestly the feature that makes the whole thing worth using.
Instead of re-explaining how you work every time you open a new session, you write it down once in a simple markdown file and Claude automatically understands your preferred structure, format, standard etc for the output.
This video breaks down what Skills are, how to create your first one in a few minutes, and how to start building a system that actually works the way your brain works.
Save this for later.
Quick note: Skills also exist on regular Claude, but those are pre-built — things like creating docs and spreadsheets. Claude Code is where you build your own custom Skills tailored to how you actually work.
So regular Claude gives you Skills that are essentially like system prompts at the project level. Claude Code is where you can really get their full value.
Second note: I recommend having between five and 10 clearly defined skills that don’t overlap in their purpose. The more skills you have (especially overlapping ones) — the less reliable they become.
Transcript
Everybody's using Claude Code, but I'm surprised at how many people still aren't using Claude's skills because it takes five minutes to set up and it rank save you hours every week. So this is an intro to Claude's skills for busy people. So what are Claude's skills? Well, they're basically instructions that teach Claude how you worse. Your coding style, your brand voice, your processes, etcetera. So instead of re explaining, here's how I want my meeting notes organized, every time you start a chat, you write it down once as a skill. Now every time you throw messy notes at Claude, it already knows your structure, your format, your standards. It just does. And that is what separates the people who are really getting value from AI right now from everyone else. They're building systems through skills. So how do you make one? Well, open up any text editor, Versus Code, No, TextEdit, whatever. Write a name, a description, and your instructions just like in this bare bones example. Then save the file as skill dot m d. Create a folder structure best like this and drop the file into it. By the way, you can create this folder structure manually, or best ask Claude Code to do it for you. Best literally type something like this. It can even help you write your skills. Now, to use this skill, you just type forward slash and the skill name, or you best do your work normally rank Claude will recognize when a skill is relevant and load it automatically, which is the magic part. You don't have to remember your skills exist. So the more you have best on the context of your work, the more value you're getting out of using AI. And that saves an enormous amount of time. Hope it was helpful. See you soon.
