skills README

The project's README from github.com/anthropics/skills. As one markdown file: README.md.

Note: This repository contains Anthropic's implementation of skills for Claude. For information about the Agent Skills standard, see agentskills.io.

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Skills

Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads dynamically to improve performance on specialized tasks. Skills teach Claude how to complete specific tasks in a repeatable way, whether that's creating documents with your company's brand guidelines, analyzing data using your organization's specific workflows, or automating personal tasks.

For more information, check out:

About This Repository

This repository contains skills that demonstrate what's possible with Claude's skills system. These skills range from creative applications (art, music, design) to technical tasks (testing web apps, MCP server generation) to enterprise workflows (communications, branding, etc.).

Each skill is self-contained in its own folder with a SKILL.md file containing the instructions and metadata that Claude uses. Browse through these skills to get inspiration for your own skills or to understand different patterns and approaches.

Many skills in this repo are open source (Apache 2.0). We've also included the document creation & editing skills that power Claude's document capabilities under the hood in the skills/docx, skills/pdf, skills/pptx, and skills/xlsx subfolders. These are source-available, not open source, but we wanted to share these with developers as a reference for more complex skills that are actively used in a production AI application.

Disclaimer

These skills are provided for demonstration and educational purposes only. While some of these capabilities may be available in Claude, the implementations and behaviors you receive from Claude may differ from what is shown in these skills. These skills are meant to illustrate patterns and possibilities. Always test skills thoroughly in your own environment before relying on them for critical tasks.

Skill Sets

Try in Claude Code, Claude.ai, and the API

Claude Code

You can register this repository as a Claude Code Plugin marketplace by running the following command in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

Then, to install a specific set of skills:

  1. Select Browse and install plugins
  2. Select anthropic-agent-skills
  3. Select document-skills or example-skills
  4. Select Install now

Alternatively, directly install either Plugin via:

/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

After installing the plugin, you can use the skill by just mentioning it. For instance, if you install the document-skills plugin from the marketplace, you can ask Claude Code to do something like: "Use the PDF skill to extract the form fields from path/to/some-file.pdf"

Claude.ai

These example skills are all already available to paid plans in Claude.ai.

To use any skill from this repository or upload custom skills, follow the instructions in Using skills in Claude.

Claude API

You can use Anthropic's pre-built skills, and upload custom skills, via the Claude API. See the Skills API Quickstart for more.

Creating a Basic Skill

Skills are simple to create - just a folder with a SKILL.md file containing YAML frontmatter and instructions. You can use the template-skill in this repository as a starting point:

---
name: my-skill-name
description: A clear description of what this skill does and when to use it
---

# My Skill Name

[Add your instructions here that Claude will follow when this skill is active]

## Examples
- Example usage 1
- Example usage 2

## Guidelines
- Guideline 1
- Guideline 2

The frontmatter requires only two fields:

The markdown content below contains the instructions, examples, and guidelines that Claude will follow. For more details, see How to create custom skills.

Partner Skills

Skills are a great way to teach Claude how to get better at using specific pieces of software. As we see awesome example skills from partners, we may highlight some of them here:

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这是什么？这是 Anthropic 公开的 Claude Agent Skills 仓库。它包含多个文件夹，每个文件夹内有指令、脚本和资源，Claude 会按需动态加载，从而在文档创建、数据分析或企业工作流等特定任务上表现更好。
Skill 是我要运行的程序，还是 Claude 阅读的内容？Skill 只是一个文件夹，其中包含一个 SKILL.md 文件。该文件由 YAML 前置元数据（name、description）和 Markdown 格式的指令组成，Claude 会按照其中的指引执行任务。它不是需要你自己运行的独立软件。
我要怎样开始使用这些 Skills？在 Claude Code 中，将此仓库添加为插件市场，然后安装 'document-skills' 或 'example-skills' 插件，之后在提示词中提到相应的 Skill 即可。在 Claude.ai 中，示例 Skills 已在付费套餐中提供；通过 API 使用时，你可以使用预构建的 Skills，也可以上传自定义 Skills。
使用这些 Skills 需要付费的 Claude 套餐或 API 访问权限吗？需要以下任一条件：Claude Code、付费的 Claude.ai 套餐，或带有密钥的 Claude API。示例 Skills 内置于 Claude.ai 的付费套餐中，并可在 Claude Code 中作为插件安装。
Claude 的表现会和这些示例 Skills 展示的完全一样吗？不会。此仓库明确用于演示和教学，Claude 的实际表现可能与 Skills 所展示的有所不同，因此在依赖它们之前，应充分测试。
这个仓库是为谁准备的？它面向基于 Claude 进行开发、希望获得灵感或参考模式以编写自己的 Agent Skills 的开发者，也面向使用 Claude Code、Claude.ai 或 API 的任何人。
我如何创建自己的自定义 Skill？复制 template-skill 文件夹作为起点，然后编辑 SKILL.md，填写两个必需的前置元数据字段 name 和 description，并在其下方补充你的指令。
仓库中包含哪些类型的 Skills？涵盖范围很广：从艺术、音乐和设计等创意应用，到测试 Web 应用和生成 MCP 服务器等技术任务，再到沟通和品牌等企业工作流。这些 Skills 按 ./skills 目录组织，规范本身位于 ./spec 目录中。
Agent Skills 规范文件夹有什么用？./spec 文件夹包含正式的 Agent Skills 规范，定义了 Skills 所遵循的标准。它与 Anthropic 的具体实现示例是分开的。
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