Build Your First Claude Skill
Turn a task you already repeat into a skill that runs it the same way every time.
You finish with a skill of your own.
One working skill built from your own repeat task, tested, tightened and scanned before you share it.
yours to keep
Free skill: Skill starter
A template plus a skill that interviews you and drafts your first skill file. Scanned for safety before release.
5 lessons, about 45 minutes.
What a skill is
When a skill beats a long prompt, and when it doesn't.
Anatomy of a skill
The name, the description that decides when it runs, and the instructions.
Write one from your own work
Pick a task you repeat and write the first version.
Test and tighten
Run it, fix when it fires, cut what it doesn't need.
Scan before you share
Check your own skill the way you would check a stranger's.
Ends with a short quiz and one assignment. Finish both and you get your certificate.
Where to go next.
Questions
What is the free skill?
A working Claude skill that does this course's job, so you keep a tool and not only notes. Every skill we give away is scanned with the method from our free skill-safety course first.