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Claude Code skills — packaging your favourite workflows.
A skill is a reusable workflow Claude can invoke by name. Here's how to build one.
Overview
Claude Code skills let you package a repeatable workflow — a multi-step task with specific files to read, prompts to use, outputs to produce — and invoke it with a single command. They're the highest-leverage way to make Claude work like you.
What a skill looks like
A folder in
~/.claude/skills/ with a SKILL.md that describes what the skill does, when to use it, and what to expect.Examples that work
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deploy-checklist — runs lint, build, and a final SEO check before deploying.
• add-blog-post — creates the MDX file with frontmatter, adds it to the index, updates the sitemap.
• fix-the-bug — your debug loop, codified.When to extract a skill
After you've done a workflow 3+ times. Anything you reach for repeatedly is a skill candidate.
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