SKILLS
Claude Code skills - building reusable workflows, progressive disclosure, and the skill ecosystem.
16 resources - 11 posts, 5 guides
Blog Posts
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Karpathy CLAUDE.md Skills: Use the Viral Rules as a Menu, Not a Template
The andrej-karpathy-skills repo exploded because every coding agent needs behavioral rails. The useful move is not copying it blindly, but turning the rules into repo-specific operating constraints.
8 min read
Skills Are How Agents Learn the Job
Skills turn a general coding agent into a trained teammate by packaging runbooks, scripts, examples, and domain-specific judgment into reusable instructions.
7 min read
An Agent SDK Triage Bot for Commercial Insurance Submissions
Commercial underwriters drown in PDF submissions. Here is how to build a Claude Agent SDK triage bot with skills, hooks, and a clean audit trail.
12 min read
Skills Marketplace: 312 Claude Code Skills, Curated
A curated directory of 312 Claude Code skills, plus Pro tools for authors who want analytics, version pinning, and a real submission flow.
8 min read
Two Small Devtools: SkillForge CI and Cost Tape
Two quality-of-life tools we built this week for Claude Code daily drivers: a SKILL.md linter and a VS Code status bar that shows live LLM spend.
7 min read
10 Trending AI Dev Tools, Week of April 28 2026
From Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 to Andrej-karpathy-skills and EvoMap - the AI dev tools actually shipping the last 30 days, with commands, links, and pricing.
9 min read
The Claude Design Moment: AI Design Skills Just Got Their Breakout Week
Four Claude-Design-adjacent repos entered the trending week with a combined 8,300+ stars. Huashu-design, open-codesign, awesome-claude-design, cc-design. Here is what is actually happening, and why the pattern matters.
7 min read
What Are Claude Code Skills? A Complete Beginner Guide
Skills are how you stop copy-pasting the same workflow into Claude Code every session. What they are, how to write one, and where to find hundreds ready to use. Fact-checked against Anthropic's docs.
11 min read
Self-Improving Skills: Claude Code That Learns From Every Session
Claude Code skills can now reflect on sessions, extract corrections, and update themselves with confidence levels. Your agent gets smarter every time you use it.
7 min read
Continual Learning in Claude Code: Memory That Compounds
Skills turn Claude Code sessions into persistent memory. Successes and failures get captured, progressively disclosed, and shared across teams. Your agent remembers.
7 min read
Claude Skills: A technical deep dive into Anthropic's new approach to AI context management
A comprehensive look at Claude Skills-modular, persistent task modules that shatter AI's memory constraints and enable progressive, composable, code-capable workflows for developers and organizations.
8 min read
Guides
All guides →Skills System - Claude Code
Reusable markdown files with instructions and workflows.
GuideBundled Skills - Claude Code
/simplify, /batch, /debug, /fast, and other built-in skills.
GuideSkill Arguments - Claude Code
Pass arguments to skills with string substitution support.
GuideDisable Model Invocation - Claude Code
Hide skills from Claude's auto-selection until manually triggered.
GuideSubagent Frontmatter - Claude Code
Configure model, tools, MCP, skills, memory, and scoping.
GuideKeep exploring Skills
- - Compare Tools - dive deeper across the Developers Digest knowledge base
- - All Skills articles in the blog archive
- - Developers Digest on YouTube - video tutorials covering Skills and more
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