How to Build Your First Claude Skill

Lo que necesitas

• A Claude account (claude.ai)

• One task you do several times a day, like research, checking emails or updating your CRM

Paso a paso

1. 1

   Pick a workflow you repeat daily

   0:12

   List the things you do multiple times a day (updating your CRM, checking emails, searching for information online). Each one is a reusable workflow, and a skill is a standardized way for AI to repeat it. Everything here also applies to ChatGPT.

2. 2

   Know what a skill contains

   0:40

   A skill is a mega prompt sent the same way every time: - Description: tells Claude when to trigger the skill. - SKILL.md: a Markdown file holding the instructions. - Optional toolkit: visual assets, examples, templates and, for advanced skills, scripts.

   You do not have to write any of this yourself.

3. 3

   Do the task once with Claude

   2:30

   Open Claude and run the task one time, exactly as you normally would. In the video, I ask for a single web search on trending AI topics.

   Example task promptCopiar

   Hey Claude, can you please do research, just one web search on trending AI topics in the world, please?

4. 4

   Ask Claude to turn it into a skill

   3:11

   In the same chat, ask Claude to make a skill out of what you just did. Claude uses its built-in skill creator skill whenever you ask it to create or modify a skill.

   Turn it into a skillCopiar

   Hey, can you please turn this into a skill?

5. 5

   Review the finished skill

   4:00

   Open the output. The skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file. Check the description (when Claude should use it, for example whenever you ask for a web search on trending AI topics) and the instructions that tell Claude step by step what to do.

6. 6

   Save it and manage your skills

   4:38

   Click the save button on the skill. Then go to Manage to see all your skills. Click any skill to read its files. Compare your simple one-file skill with the skill creator, which also includes assets, agents and more.

7. 7

   Find your next skill

   5:48

   Open your Claude account, check out the skill creator, and ask Claude to suggest what else you could turn into a skill.

   Find skill ideasCopiar

   Hey, read through your memory and see what we can turn into a skill.

   Check a finished chatCopiar

   Hey, check what we did right now and tell me if we can build a skill with it.

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