Guides
Long-form guides and tutorials for building with AI coding agents.
Long-form tutorials and deep-dives on building with AI coding agents. From first principles to advanced workflows, learn how to design agents, write skills, wire up MCP servers, and ship faster with Claude Code.
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Are Claude Skills Safe? A Security Review Checklist
Skills are an instruction supply chain: what can go wrong with third-party SKILL.md files, and the review checklist before installing or distributing one.
Claude Skills Examples: Annotated SKILL.md Files
Real SKILL.md examples you can copy — a minimal skill, a scoped-tools skill, a bundled-script skill — with the reasoning behind each line.
Claude Skills Not Working? Fixes for Every Failure Mode
Skill missing from the / menu, never auto-triggering, firing too often, or breaking mid-run — the symptom-by-symptom fix list for Claude skills.
Claude Skills on claude.ai and the API
How Agent Skills work beyond Claude Code: uploading to claude.ai, the /v1/skills API with code execution, Managed Agents, and the Agent SDK.
Claude Skills Use Cases: 20 Ideas Worth Building
Twenty concrete Claude skills use cases — for engineers, writers, analysts, and ops — with the pattern behind each and links to installable versions.
Claude Skills vs Custom GPTs: Different Answers to Reuse
Claude Skills are portable procedures; Custom GPTs are packaged chatbots inside ChatGPT. How they differ on portability, API access, sharing, and where each wins.
Claude's Document Skills: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF
How Anthropic's pre-built document skills let Claude produce real .xlsx, .pptx, .docx, and PDF files — on claude.ai, the API, and in Claude Code.
How to Install Claude Skills
Every way to install Claude skills: manual copy, the agentscamp CLI, GitHub repos, plugins, team distribution, and uploading to claude.ai.
The Agent Skills Standard: One SKILL.md for Every AI Tool
Agent Skills became an open standard in December 2025. Which tools read SKILL.md today — Copilot, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Codex — and how to write portable skills.
Frequently asked questions
- Who are these guides for?
- Developers building with AI coding agents — whether you're just starting with Claude Code or designing production agent workflows. Each guide is self-contained and practical.
- Are the guides free to read?
- Yes. Every guide on AgentsCamp is free to read, with no paywall and no signup.
- Where should I start?
- If you're new, begin with the getting-started guides on agents and skills, then move into MCP, prompting, and workflow deep-dives as you grow more comfortable.
- How often are the guides updated?
- Guides are revised as Claude Code and the surrounding tooling evolve. Each guide shows its publish and last-updated dates.