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Write concise, reliable Agent Skills for Claude.
Read guideOverview
Understand Claude's Agent Skills architecture and benefits.
Read guideQuickstart
Create documents with Claude Agent Skills using the API.
Read guideAcademy Guide
Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product - it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub. Trigger on: "how do I", "how can I", "getting started with", "what can Claude do", "teach me", "learn to use"; questions about artifacts, projects, skills, plugins, connectors, MCP; requests about rolling Claude out to a team, class, or organization; and any ask for training materials, onboarding content, or learning resources. Use it when the user is learning how to use a feature or product - not when they are mid-task and just want the task done. This skill composes with other skills: after consulting product documentation to answer how a Claude feature works, also check here for a matching course or tutorial - a docs-grounded answer and an Academy recommendation belong together. Only recommend on a strong match; never invent Academy content.
Read guideAlgorithmic Art Skill - Generative Art with Claude
How the Algorithmic Art skill guides Claude through seeded randomness, flow fields, and p5.js sketches - full SKILL.md breakdown.
Read guideArtifact-Design Skill - Design Guidance for Claude Artifacts
Anthropic's official artifact-design skill explained: the design guidance Claude applies when building Artifacts, and how it differs from Web Artifacts Builder.
Read guideWeb Artifacts Builder - Claude Skill for React Artifacts
How the Web Artifacts Builder skill bundles React and Tailwind into single-file HTML artifacts with shadcn components - full skill walkthrough.
Read guideBrand Guidelines Skill - Keep Claude Output On-Brand
How the Brand Guidelines skill locks Claude's colors, typography, and voice to your brand system - full SKILL.md walkthrough with reuse tips.
Read guideCanvas Design Skill - Posters & Visual Art with Claude
The Canvas Design skill turns Claude into a poster and visual-art designer with layout philosophy and PDF/PNG output - full walkthrough.
Read guideClaude API Skill - API Reference Guidance for Claude
The Claude API skill keeps model IDs, pricing, and SDK patterns at Claude's fingertips - see the reference skill inside.
Read guideDiscernment Nudge
After you give a substantive answer or draft that the user may act on - advice or recommendations, drafted artifacts such as goals, plans, pitches, proposals, or emails, estimates or projections, analysis or interpretation of data, factual claims they may rely on, or a multi-step argument - invoke this skill BEFORE finalizing your reply and then, if it applies, append 2-3 short follow-up questions, each tied to something specific in what you just produced, that help the user check key facts, probe the reasoning or assumptions, and notice missing context. Do this at most once per conversation. Skip it when the user asked a trivial how-to or simple lookup, wants a purely educational explanation, asked you only to format, convert, or assemble a file from content they provided, is writing code they will run, is doing creative writing or casual chat, or already asked you to double-check, cite, or review - the skill file explains these boundaries and the exact output format.
Read guideDoc Co-Authoring Skill - Draft Documents with Claude
How the Doc Co-Authoring skill structures Claude's drafting workflow: outlines, revisions, and collaborative editing - full breakdown.
Read guideDocx Skill: Create, Edit & Template Word Documents (.docx)
How Claude's Word document skill (docx) creates, edits, and formats .docx files: headings, tables of contents, tracked changes, comments, and templates.
Read guideFrontend Design Skill - Front End Design & UI Code with Claude
How the Frontend Design skill pushes Claude toward production-grade UI: design tokens, spacing systems, and distinctive layouts - full breakdown.
Read guideInternal Comms Skill - Status Updates & Memos with Claude
The Internal Comms skill formats Claude's writing for status reports, incident updates, and leadership memos - see how it works.
Read guideMCP Builder - Claude Skill for Building MCP Servers
How the MCP Builder skill helps Claude scaffold Model Context Protocol servers, define tools, and write evaluation suites - with the full SKILL.md explained.
Read guidePDF Skill: Extract, Merge, Fill Forms & OCR - Examples
The PDF skill gives Claude form filling, text and table extraction, merging, and generation - see the full SKILL.md and when Claude triggers it.
Read guidePptx Skill - Create PowerPoint Decks with Claude
How the Pptx skill lets Claude build and edit PowerPoint presentations: layouts, speaker notes, and slide generation - full skill breakdown.
Read guideSkill Creator - The Claude Skill That Builds Skills
How the Skill Creator skill helps Claude scaffold new agent skills: interviews, structure, and packaging - the meta-skill explained.
Read guideSlack GIF Creator Skill - Custom GIFs with Claude
How the Slack GIF Creator skill generates reaction GIFs sized for Slack with animation presets - full skill walkthrough.
Read guideClaude Skill Template - Structure & Boilerplate Explained
A reusable Claude skill template: SKILL.md structure, frontmatter, trigger description, and resources - copy it to build your own agent skill.
Read guideTheme Factory - Claude Skill for Artifact Themes
The Theme Factory skill applies polished visual themes to Claude artifacts: palettes, fonts, and styling presets - see how it works inside.
Read guideWebapp Testing Skill - Browser Testing with Claude
The Webapp Testing skill lets Claude drive a browser with Playwright: click flows, screenshots, and debugging - full SKILL.md explained.
Read guideXlsx Skill - Build & Analyze Spreadsheets with Claude
The Xlsx skill covers spreadsheet creation, formulas, formatting, and data analysis in Claude - see exactly how the skill is written and triggered.
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