Learn Claude Skills

Paths Build Your First Claude Skill

Beginner 5 lessons ~45 min

Build Your First Claude Skill

Start from zero. Understand what a Claude skill is, read a real SKILL.md, then write, invoke, and verify your own — no prior skill experience needed.

By the end: You can author a minimal skill and confirm Claude invokes it on the right request.

Prerequisites: Claude Code installed · Comfort editing files in a project

Start lesson 1
The sequence

5 lessons, in order.

  1. What Are Claude Skills?Understand what a skill is and when Claude reaches for one.
  2. The Anatomy of a SKILL.mdRead a SKILL.md and know what every part does.
  3. Write Your First SkillAuthor a minimal skill from scratch.
  4. Invoke It — and Verify It RanTrigger your skill and confirm it actually fired.
  5. Tune It So It Fires When You ExpectAdjust the description so the skill triggers on the right requests — and not the wrong ones.
What you'll build

A working SKILL.md that Claude loads and runs.

You keep what you build. Looking for a specific skill instead of a path? Browse the ClaudeSkillsGuide directory.