Claude Skills Explained: Beginner to Advanced Tutorial

In this monologue podcast, Ali Salem introduces and explains Anthropic's new Claude agent skills, highlighting their modular, task-specific nature and comparing them to custom instructions, projects, and MCPs. The podcast details how to use pre-built Anthropic skills and create custom skills, demonstrating the process with brand guidelines and a custom branding example. It further explores community skills available on platforms like GitHub, emphasizing security considerations. The podcast concludes with practical best practices for efficient Claude skill utilization, such as toggling off unused skills, avoiding duplicate intent, using descriptive naming, and chaining skills for modular automation.