Install Claude Code and Run Your First Session
Install Claude Code the current way, sign in, and ask it a real question about your own code. Then see what skills are and why you would build one.
Guides
One task, one guide, done fast.
Guides solve one specific thing without committing to a whole path: where skills live, why one won't trigger, how to vet a shared skill. For the end-to-end journey in order, the learning paths are the place to start.
CLAUDE.md vs Skills vs Subagents vs Hooks vs Plugins vs MCP: A Beginner’s Decision Tree
Claude Code has six ways to customize it, and beginners cannot tell them apart. Here is what each one does, plus a decision tree that picks the right one.
Claude Code Slash Commands for Beginners
This guide covers the slash commands that matter on day one, grouped by job. It also covers what command lists skip: your own skills are invokable as /name.
Where Skills Live: Personal, Project, and Plugin Skills
Skills can be installed per-user, per-project, or via plugins. Pick the right home so a skill is available exactly where it should be, and nowhere else.
Turn a Repeated Prompt into a Skill
If you have pasted the same instructions twice, you have found a skill. Here is the five-minute conversion, with the one split that makes it work.
Fix a Skill That Won't Trigger
A skill that never loads is almost always a description problem, but not always. Run this checklist in order and you will find the failure in minutes.
Subagents for Beginners: When to Hand Work to a Second Claude
A subagent is a separate Claude with its own clean context. Learn the one situation that calls for one, and the far more common ones that do not.
Hooks vs Skills: When Instructions Are Not Enough
A skill is an instruction Claude tries to follow. A hook is code that runs whether Claude wants it to or not, and that difference decides which one you need.
Install a Shared Skill Safely
A skill is instructions your agent will actually follow, sometimes with scripts it will actually run. Install like it is a dependency, because it is.
Add a Helper Script to a Skill
Some steps should be code, not prose: parsing, validation, math. Bundle a script, route to it from SKILL.md, and the workflow gets a deterministic core.
Use One Skill Set Across Claude Code and Other Agents
SKILL.md is now an open standard read by many agent products. With a little discipline, one well-kept skills repo can follow you across all of them.
Build a Scroll-Scrubbed Landing Page with scroll-world
scroll-world is an agent skill that builds a landing page where scrolling flies a camera through a generated world with no cuts. Here is what it needs, what it costs, the one architecture choice that decides whether it looks right, and the one rule that decides whether it works at all.
Mastering CLI-Anything: Turn Any Desktop App into a Claude Skill
CLI-Anything generates lightweight command-line interfaces for apps lacking official MCPs. Package those CLI commands into a SKILL.md to automate NotebookLM, local desktop tools, and continuous research loops.