I Was Wrong About Claude Code Skills(malvik.de)
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I Was Wrong About Claude Code Skills
https://malvik.de/blog/claude-code-skills
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Is there an Anthropic document that says this? I mean about the "training" portion. The docs I am seeing talks about Claude Code or Desktop being able to use skills - that's a totally different matter.
> Is there an Anthropic document that says this?
Yes, from [1] :
> Claude models understand the Skill format and structure natively. You don't need special system prompts or a "writing skills" skill to get Claude to help create Skills. Simply ask Claude to create a Skill and it will generate properly structured SKILL.md content with appropriate frontmatter and body content.
[1] - https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-s...
Yes, from [1] :
> Claude models understand the Skill format and structure natively. You don't need special system prompts or a "writing skills" skill to get Claude to help create Skills. Simply ask Claude to create a Skill and it will generate properly structured SKILL.md content with appropriate frontmatter and body content.
[1] - https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-s...
They work so well because they're also "baked in" the training run of the model. The concept is simple, but training it to actually use it unlocks the "wow" factor. (using cc with other models, not trained specifically for this, reveals how big training is)
They also highlight this in their docs, you don't need to teach claude about skills. Or to write new skills. It "knows" what skills are, how to use, edit them etc.