Users can also customize skills for specific use cases, and create, view, and upgrade different versions through the Claude Console. Skills are portable and have the same format across workflows, meaning users only have to create them once.
To build custom Skills, users must provide a “human-friendly” name (for instance, “brand guidelines”); a clear description of what the Skill should do and when to use it (such as, “apply brand guidelines to presentations and documents, including official colors, fonts, and logo usage”), and specify when Claude should reference it (for example, whenever creating external materials such as Word documents, marketing materials, client reports, or presentations that represent the company).
Developers can point the agent to resource folders containing all relevant materials such as document templates, and indicate any required software packages (like Python or Pandas), if necessary.