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Overview
Understand Claude's Agent Skills architecture and benefits.
Agent Skills specification · Claude documentation
First-party guide reviewed against current official references. It is not a full official-documentation translation.
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This is an original ClaudeSkills guide reviewed against the references below on 2026-10-04. It is not a full official-documentation translation.
A reusable workflow
An Agent Skill is a folder that explains how an agent should carry out a recurring task. Its entry point is SKILL.md. Supporting scripts, reference notes and assets belong beside that file when the workflow needs them.
my-skill/
├── SKILL.md
├── scripts/
├── references/
└── assets/
Loading in stages
The agent first sees the name and description, reads the instructions when the task matches, and opens supporting resources as needed. A useful description says both what the skill does and when to use it.
Choose the environment
The file format is shared across agents; installation paths, tool permissions and runtime support depend on the product. Review these requirements in the source before choosing an installation method.
Official references
Agent Skills specification · Claude overview · Claude Code skills