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At a glance
WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Build reusable Claude workflows using Skills, Cursor, and Claude Code
- Claire Vo explains Anthropic’s new Claude Skills feature as a lightweight way to package reusable, task-specific instructions (and optional files/scripts) that Claude can invoke on demand.
- She clarifies that a “Skill” is essentially a folder containing a required SKILL.md (with metadata + instructions) plus optional referenced resources and executable Python scripts for validation or consistent logic.
- After trying Claude’s built-in “create a skill” flow (which produced too many files and had download friction), she recommends a faster workflow: generate Skills in Cursor using the docs, then run and iterate them in Claude Code.
- She demos creating and using two practical Skills (changelog→newsletter and demo notes→follow-up email), then shows how to zip and upload a Skill to the Claude web UI, noting naming constraints (lowercase/hyphenated).
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasClaude Skills enable on-demand, reusable AI workflows.
Instead of copying prompts from docs or relying on always-on project context, Skills let Claude pull in task-specific instructions when the conversation context calls for them.
A Skill is a folder, not a “magic agent object.”
The core asset is a folder containing SKILL.md plus any supporting files; you either point Claude Code at that directory or zip it for upload to claude.ai.
Good Skills combine metadata + highly explicit instructions.
The YAML metadata (name/description) helps Claude choose when to use the Skill, while detailed instructions define the workflow, output format, and decision points.
Relative file references help manage context cleanly.
You can keep templates, examples, and extra guidance in adjacent files and link them (e.g., ./templates/...), so Claude only pulls what’s needed rather than bloating the main prompt.
Python scripts reduce variability and add guardrails.
Bundled scripts can validate formatting (e.g., YAML correctness, required sections) or implement consistent transformations, avoiding “LLM rewrites the tool every time” drift.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesClaude Skills solves a really interesting problem for anybody using AI, which is reusable workflows with a set of instructions that you wanna call on demand.
— Claire Vo
A Claude Skill, the actual object, the thing that you make, is a folder.
— Claire Vo
My preference... is, you know what? If these models are so great at natural language, we should be able to define things in natural language.
— Claire Vo
It created 12 files when I really only needed five.
— Claire Vo
I just said, 'Okay, here's the latest changelog'... and it inferred what I wanted, based on the skills available in my folder.
— Claire Vo
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