Type: url
Original: https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills
Status: generated
Summary
Anthropic’s product announcement for Agent Skills: folders of instructions, scripts and resources that Claude scans and loads only when relevant to the task, claimed to be composable, portable, efficient, and able to carry executable code. It sets out how Skills reach each surface — Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise in Claude apps with automatic invocation and a skill-creator skill for authoring, Messages API plus a /v1/skills endpoint requiring the Code Execution Tool beta on the Developer Platform, and plugin-marketplace or ~/.claude/skills installation in Claude Code — and defers the design rationale to the company’s engineering post. A December 18, 2025 note records organization-wide management, a partner-built-skills directory, and publication of Agent Skills as an open standard.