In this episode I break down the best way to teach Claude how to complete specific tasks in a repeatable way: Claude Skills. I explain how Skills work, walk through how to build your own, and cover the real differences between Skills and Projects. As per always, the best way to understand this stuff is to try it yourself first hand, but hopefully this episode will give you some ideas and a nice jumpstart.

Main Topics Covered

  • What Claude Skills are
  • Definition of Skills (from Anthropic)
  • How Skills load and fire automatically
  • Progressive disclosure explained
  • Claude's skill directory and the GitHub skills repo
  • How to create a skill
  • Creating skills via Settings
  • My client-debrief skill example
  • Skills vs. Projects
  • How I used AI this week: Granola and the Granola MCP

Links & Resources for This Episode

Chapters

  • (00:00:05) - Prompting Curiosity: The AI Curious
  • (00:00:38) - Episode 58
  • (00:02:24) - Anthropic Skills: What is a Skill?
  • (00:08:10) - Claude 2.8: Creating a Skill
  • (00:14:56) - Skills and Projects in ChatGPT
  • (00:17:16) - How I Use AI to T transcribe my Calls
  • (00:21:33) - How to Use AI in the Podcast

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