Skills Guides
A curated collection of 15 skills guides for building with AI coding agents.
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.
The Best Claude Skills to Install in 2026
A skills-only tour of the AgentsCamp library — the Claude Code skills that earn a permanent slot, organized by the job they do.
Claude Code Skills: Best Practices
The patterns that make Claude Code skills reliable: trigger-first descriptions, one job per skill, lean bodies, bundled scripts, and scoped tools.
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.
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 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.
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.
Packaging and Sharing Claude Code Skills
Take a skill from your personal ~/.claude folder to a versioned plugin your whole team installs from a marketplace — portably and with governance.
The SKILL.md Reference: Every Frontmatter Field Explained
A complete reference for the SKILL.md format — all frontmatter fields, naming rules, argument substitution, limits, and where skill files live.
Skills vs Agents vs Commands
How Claude Code's two extension mechanisms — subagents and skills — differ across three invocation patterns, with a decision table for choosing the right one.
Skills vs MCP Servers: When to Use Which
Skills inject procedure into context; MCP servers expose tools and live data over a protocol. A decision framework, the combine pattern, and examples.
Testing and Debugging Claude Code Skills
Verify a Claude Code skill triggers on the right prompts, check its output, and fix the five common failures — from vague triggers to broken paths.
What Are Claude Skills? The Complete Guide
Claude Skills explained: what a SKILL.md is, how progressive disclosure keeps skills cheap, where they run, and how to install or write your own.
Writing Your First Skill
A step-by-step guide to packaging a reusable procedure as a Claude Code skill that loads exactly when it's needed.