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.
Claude Skills was announced on October 15, 2025, as a tool for customising AI agents to perform specialised task-based workflows.
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.
For more information, developers can check the Anthropic Engineering Blog for tips on using Agent Skills 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: Anthropic introduces Claude Skills for custom AI agents.