Claude Skills to Redefine How AI Agents Do Specialized Tasks
Anthropic has announced Claude Skills, a new tool customising its AI agents to perform specialised task-based workflows.
Anthropic announced Claude Skills on October 15, 2025, its latest tool for customising AI agents to perform specialised task-based workflows.
The technical documentation describes Skills as reusable, file-based, predefined prompt resources that give Claude domain-specific knowledge, workflows, and best practices, turning it from a general-purpose assistant into a task-specific expert.
New on the Anthropic Engineering Blog: tips for developers on using Agent Skills, a new way to extend Claude's capabilities with instruction folders, scripts, and resources.
- Skills performs tasks on demand
- Removes the need to repeat the same instructions across conversations within Claude
Author's summary: Claude Skills customises AI agents for task-based workflows.