Claude Code Skills just Built me an AI Agent Team (2026 Guide)

You probably already know that Claude Code is by far the best coding agent in the world. It can create entire apps

the world. It can create entire apps from a simple prompt both front end and backend. It can blow your mind in terms

backend. It can blow your mind in terms of the design of that app. But what you might not know is you can actually use Claude Code as a general agent. And

Anthropic released something really interesting a few weeks ago. they

released what is called Claude skills which is just a special type of markdown file which allows you to surround claude

code with relevant skills. So if you wished that you had an AI agent that had relevant skills, I believe that this is probably the most important thing that you could be studying right now. And so

in this video, we're going to talk about how to set up Claude skills. We're also

going to talk about how to use Claude code as a general agent. And we're going to talk about how you need to set up your skill.md file and what folders. And

your skill.md file and what folders. And

I'm going to show you how to just use AI to create these skills. Let's talk about building a general agent with relevant skills for your business. Whether you're

a content creator, business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, we're going to build an agent with relevant skills to you and we're going to use that agent.

Let's dive in. Okay. So, we're going to start off by talking about what is a coding agent. You may have heard of

coding agent. You may have heard of lovable and this video is not about lovable. We're not even going to use

lovable. We're not even going to use lovable. I just wanted to make a point

lovable. I just wanted to make a point real quick. So many people are talking

real quick. So many people are talking about vibe coding. You can use tools like lovable, replet, vibe code. These

are coding agents that you can use to build apps. And whenever I go to lovable

build apps. And whenever I go to lovable and type in uh make a landing landing page about pizza

right now, what it's doing is it's spinning up a sandbox which is basically a virtual computer and it's going to run an AI agent or an AI coding agent on the

side. Now, it's going to generate a

side. Now, it's going to generate a bunch of files within a directory or codebase, and those files are going to

make an app. And so, this is an AI coding agent at work building an app.

Okay, so it's done. The lovable coding agent took my prompt, make a landing page about pizza. It generated all of the files. This coding agent decided

the files. This coding agent decided what files it needed to generate. it

generated them and then it probably reviewed those files and then it ran the program in a virtual computer somewhere so I can see it on my uh browser because

this is within a web browser and so this is an example of an agent made specifically for creating simple applications a very narrow agent experience where it's made specifically

for creating certain types of apps with certain stacks and we could do this same thing on our computer, right? We could

do the same thing on our computer. If we

were to go to Finder, we can just go straight into our downloads, right? We

can go straight into our downloads and we could go new folder. We can go like this. We can say using quad code, right?

this. We can say using quad code, right?

So, we don't even need any IDE or something like cursor or lovable. I can

open a terminal window. I can open a new terminal at this folder and we can just run claude. So now we're running claude

run claude. So now we're running claude code in this empty folder called using claude code which is an empty folder and I can just say please build a beautiful

amazing landing page for my pizza shop Riley's Pizza Shop. Make it in the style of neo brutalism mixed with a friendly

pizza energy. So just like lovable, we

pizza energy. So just like lovable, we can run this and claude code in this empty folder is going to create the application right here. Okay, check this

out. It just generated an index.html

out. It just generated an index.html file. And there we go. It created a file

file. And there we go. It created a file the same way that Lovable is creating all the different files and putting them in a folder in some virtual machine.

It's just a virtual computer. We're

doing this on our computer. It's doing

the same exact thing Lovable is doing.

And the point I want to make here, you can just use these coding models on your computer and coding files, right? This

is an HTML file and this is a CSS file.

This is not the only type of file you can create with cloud code. You can

create any type of file. So it is done.

And if we just copy this link right here and we paste in localhost80, we can run this on our computer. This is

running locally on our computer. where

Lovable in Lovable's case, it just created a virtual machine and it ran it on that computer and it showed you what it created on the browser. Now, we're

running this fully on our computer and we didn't use any like software in between. We generated the code files

between. We generated the code files with an AI coding agent on our computer.

It used an AI model from anthropic servers to create those files. So that's

where it costs money, but we didn't use any other software other than getting Claude to generate all the files. And

we're running it on our MacBook Pro. And

this is the website that it created. And

you'll notice that in my opinion, I've tested every single one of these coding agents. Just raw Claude code is the best

agents. Just raw Claude code is the best in the world. So Replet and lovable, they have their own coding agents.

Claude Code out of the box is better than all of them. And so what I want to explain now is how you can use this as a

general agent. So this right here is

general agent. So this right here is Obsidian. And this is just a basic notes

Obsidian. And this is just a basic notes app where every file instead of the files uh being an HTML file or a JavaScript file or a CSS file which

ultimately created this uh application that we can use. Instead of it being one of those types of files, these are all markdown files. So the way that I use

markdown files. So the way that I use general agents is I actually use claude code at the same location as my notes

like this is my agent workspace. This is

kind of how I think about this. This is

a notebook and Riley Brown uses this as his personal notebook so that he can be a better CMO and co-founder of the Vibe Code app. And I basically state all of

Code app. And I basically state all of my goals. Why am I stating this? I I

my goals. Why am I stating this? I I

know my goals. Why am I writing this?

because I don't use this by myself. I

use this with my general agent which is Claude Code. And what I can do here is I

Claude Code. And what I can do here is I can actually click on this or I can rightclick on this and hit reveal in Finder. So here we can see Riley content

Finder. So here we can see Riley content creation. That's basically what I called

creation. That's basically what I called this file. And you'll see here all of

this file. And you'll see here all of these different files here. Um like this is just a wrapper of these files that are showing up on my computer, right?

This is just in my computer. And so the same way that I ran claude code in a new folder, I can run claude code in this folder. So I can reveal this in finder.

folder. So I can reveal this in finder.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to rightclick services, new terminal at folder, right? New terminal at folder.

folder, right? New terminal at folder.

Now you can see here that it is running.

So we're in this folder right here, which is the same folder where all of this is located. And now we can run uh claude. And so now we have cloud code

claude. And so now we have cloud code running in the folder that has all of my notes. And so I can use it with cloud

notes. And so I can use it with cloud code. So I could go into tasks, right?

code. So I could go into tasks, right?

And and this is how I keep track of my tasks. I could go into Q. Um let's say

tasks. I could go into Q. Um let's say these are both done, right? This is

these are the things that I want to do.

Um and so in my queue, one thing that I do want to do, and I can just drag this in here. One thing that I do want to do

in here. One thing that I do want to do is I want to explain Claude skills to my audience and make a video. Right? This

is one thing I really want to do. Um I

want to um share the file structure um with of Claude skills. And then I want to take my notebook and examine what Claude skills would be useful for me to

create. And I'm I'm uh do this on this

create. And I'm I'm uh do this on this page. Don't create or edit any other

page. Don't create or edit any other files. Just make a plan and do it. Okay.

files. Just make a plan and do it. Okay.

So, we just created this markdown file of this thing that I want to do. The

cool thing is I can just ask Claude Code to do it. I can just say, "Do what's in my queue." Right? That's all I need to

my queue." Right? That's all I need to say. I can say, "Yo, do what's in my

say. I can say, "Yo, do what's in my queue." And because the first thing that

queue." And because the first thing that this agent's going to do is analyze the readme file. It's going to see how it's

readme file. It's going to see how it's organized, right? It's going to know

organized, right? It's going to know that there's tasks. It's going to know what the queue is, draft tasks. So, it's

just going to know to check the queue.

And because Claude Code is such a powerful agent and it's really good at looking through the code base, in this case, which is just a bunch of my notes, it's going to find the right location.

It's really smart. And it's going to find this page, and it's just going to do what I want it to do. And we'll just wait for Cloud Code to do that. And

you'll see here that we never said to look at this file. It doesn't know that I have this file open. It just found what's in my queue. And you can see here it's examining notebook for skill ideas.

It found the right file and now it's creating the relevant things. Allow it

to edit this session. Boom. Look at

that. So, it just added all of this. It

added all of this to this document. It told us what skills are, right? And it told us that uh from

are, right? And it told us that uh from the anthropic skills repo, it it basically did research. It found uh the clawed skills repo. And now it is

telling us that you can create within the claude.md file. You can create a

the claude.md file. You can create a skill by creating a folder with the skill name. And inside that folder, it

skill name. And inside that folder, it needs to have a claude or a skill.md

file. And then you can put optional uh resources within that folder. And so you can even put assets, references, etc. And I'll get to that in just a second.

The point I wanted to make is the same way lovable was a coding specific example of using an agent. This is a notes specific example for using an

agent. So I promise you we are we're

agent. So I promise you we are we're working our way up to creating claude skills. I just wanted to illustrate the

skills. I just wanted to illustrate the point. I wanted to talk about what a

point. I wanted to talk about what a domain specific agent was like the lovable agent that can create apps. Then

I showed you a note takingaking example where you can use claude code as a general agent. Now, we're going to use

general agent. Now, we're going to use it in a wide openen world within cursor.

And we can do literally whatever we want. I like to use cursor because it's

want. I like to use cursor because it's just the best in my opinion for quickly using claude code. And it's ironic because I use we can just say claude

code skills. So, what uh we're going to

code skills. So, what uh we're going to be creating claude skills in this project. So, I'll just name it that. And

project. So, I'll just name it that. And

now it is opening up this directory in an IDE. So cloud uh a cursor is just an

an IDE. So cloud uh a cursor is just an IDE like VS Code where you can view all the files. And so the way that I vibe

the files. And so the way that I vibe code is I'm just going to come in here and the first thing that I'm going to do is hit command J. We're going to open up the terminal and we're going to type claude. Then we're going to press this

claude. Then we're going to press this right here to open up the side panel.

And so now we have Claude code on the left or on the right. controlling this

directory which is claude code skills and what we're going to do here is I'm going to say please take a look at this direct or at this repo and I'm going to

paste this GitHub uh to the anthropic skills right here please create one

simple skill in the right format so that you will use this skill when you need to. Okay. So, right now it's creating an

to. Okay. So, right now it's creating an example skill. What it's going to do is

example skill. What it's going to do is it's going to create a cloud file. It's

going to create a cloud file. As you can see here, it's created this.cloud file.

It's also going to create a skills folder as you'll see in just a second.

Okay, there you go. It created a folder called.cloud

called.cloud and then it created a skills folder within that. And then it has other

within that. And then it has other folders beneath it. So it created this summarized folder with a skill MD.

That's all you need to create a skill.

You just need to put in the docloud folder because cloud code knows to look in thecloud folder for certain things like sub aents and now skills. We're not

talking about sub aents in this video.

We're just talking about skills. So we

created the skills folder. And within

this folder, right, we see this skill.md.

skill.md.

And every single skill.mmd file should be formatted with the name and description. Right? It should have a

description. Right? It should have a name and description. You can see here that this one that I've created is called brand voice, which is skill number one. And then there is a name and

number one. And then there is a name and description. And so the name is just a

description. And so the name is just a human-friendly title. It can be

human-friendly title. It can be anything. But the crucial part is this

anything. But the crucial part is this description because it tells Claude code when to use this skill. And so we're reaching a point where you can get agents to do things with a simple

markdown file. But what you need to do

markdown file. But what you need to do is you need to make sure that you format it correctly so Cloud Code knows when to follow your instructions. Because

basically all skills are the way that I think about them is they are just SOPs or standard operating procedures. SOPs

for agents. And so right these are instructions on what to do in certain scenarios. And if you put a high quality

scenarios. And if you put a high quality description, it'll know what instruction manual or SOP to use when it needs to do

a specific task. And so I don't really want to use this summarize skill. I

actually want to create a skill that's much more relevant to me. Okay. So I

just want to show you what I've been doing. I've been annotating. I've been

doing. I've been annotating. I've been

annotating my Twitter posts because I can give these to Claude. I can put these in Claude skills so that the agent knows how I post. And so I can say short

video attached to this photo. This is a Twitter account that I run by the way that helps me grow Vibe Code. And I can

say um uh senior vibe coder is ragebait and works. I don't do this often, right?

and works. I don't do this often, right?

Okay. And I just put this directly on the image. And it helps me kind of

the image. And it helps me kind of annotate my images here. And I'm just going to hit I'm just going to exit out.

Hit save. And we can save all these. And

so what we can do here is we can just take all of these files. We can drag them in here. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to put a new skill here. And what we can do is we can just

here. And what we can do is we can just drag these images in here. Now we're

going to go to cloud code. I want you to replace this uh summarize skill. And

because this is a folder, right? Uh I

can just type at summarize, right? I can

say replace this summarize skill. Uh

this skill, the whole summarize skill uh should be replaced with a Twitter post X post skill. This skill should allow the

post skill. This skill should allow the agent to create tweets in my style and use the images that are in the at new in

the new skill here folder as a reference. So please create that skill

reference. So please create that skill now. So we're basically going to tell

now. So we're basically going to tell cloud code to analyze these images. It's

going to look for patterns in how I speak. And actually one thing I can

speak. And actually one thing I can mention, I just hit the backspace.

Just know the red text in these images are annotations. So that's not part of

are annotations. So that's not part of the post. These are my annotations to

the post. These are my annotations to you on why I did certain things. So take

that into consideration when constructing this skill, right? So I

annotated why I did what I did. So this

gives some extra context to Cloud Code and it's going to packages it package it as a skill. And so in theory whenever I ask for a Twitter post to claude code in the future uh within this repo it should

be able to do it in my style because I've given it relevant context. Okay. So

there you go. It created this skill.md

file and all it did was analyze all of those images. It converted them into

those images. It converted them into these uh markdown formats and it converted it into a skill. What it

didn't do is I didn't specify this. Uh

that was just a temporary folder. Please

remove that folder, but add those images into that skill folder as references because this doesn't need to be here.

This can just go into the skill and right. So right now we have two skills.

right. So right now we have two skills.

We're going to add another skill in just a second. So we have one skill and every

a second. So we have one skill and every skill needs a claw.md file. So it just created this and now it has these references that it can use right here.

What we can do if we want references uh to posts and we can select all of these and we can just like move them in here.

So we have references and then the skill.md file. You need this skill.md

skill.md file. You need this skill.md

file, right? And so what we can do, I want you to create a markdown file in

the root. And when I say in the root, I

the root. And when I say in the root, I mean right there's the the folder that we opened up originally which is claude code skills. This is the root folder. So

code skills. This is the root folder. So

it should put it in below thecloud folder. The dotcloud folder is also in

folder. The dotcloud folder is also in the root. The skills folder is in the

the root. The skills folder is in the do.cloud folder. Thus not in the root.

do.cloud folder. Thus not in the root.

Just wanted to be clear. uh in the root and come up with 10

ideas for the Twitter copy based on my last video where I explained Claude skills

should match and then I can uh give it that GitHub repo link I mentioned skills

and explained why it's important.

important for general use cases for like marketing and as general agent. Okay. So, let's

say I made this video because I'm making this video right now. What I would probably do is feed in the transcript of this video and then it would generate 10 options. So, it would have more context

options. So, it would have more context of the video we're creating. But since

I'm making the video right now, I can't give it the transcript. Um, but that's okay. It's going to create a markdown

okay. It's going to create a markdown file in the root and it's going to use this skill. Okay, so it is done. Okay,

this skill. Okay, so it is done. Okay,

you'll see that when you see this green dot and it shows expost right here. When

you see this green dot and it has expost, that means it's using that skill, right? It is using the expost

skill, right? It is using the expost skill.

And we're going to allow it to create these files. And boom, Twitter ideas.

these files. And boom, Twitter ideas.

So, here we go. Cloud Code just became a general agent, not a chatbot, an agent that does your workflows. Enthropic just

released skills, reusable prompt templates, invoke with slash commands, marketing teams. Okay, so this is really good. Oh my, this shouldn't be possible.

good. Oh my, this shouldn't be possible.

I turned Claude into my personal marketing team. Social media copy on

marketing team. Social media copy on demand, email sequences in seconds, brand voice locked in permanently. Zero

prompting every time. How Claude skills one markdown file infinite workflows.

This is very good. So it wrote this in my voice using this skill. But it gets much cooler than this. So if we were to

go to um let's go to arc. So we're going to go to typefully.com. And in typefully

we can go to settings and we could go to API and we can hit new API key. And so

this is going to be test key for me. Create API key. I'm going to

for me. Create API key. I'm going to delete this right after this video. And

then what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on this docs. And this explains exactly how to use this API key. So,

what I'm trying to do here is I don't want it to just come up with ideas. I

want them to draft them in this tool where I can post directly to social media. So, in theory, I could have an

media. So, in theory, I could have an agent uh come up with tweets uh and automatically draft them within Titefully because that's what you can do here on this

platform, right? We could have it

platform, right? We could have it directly post this as a um a draft here, right? It can schedule a new draft. And

right? It can schedule a new draft. And

so, that's exactly what I'm going to tell it. So I want you to add to our

tell it. So I want you to add to our x post skill. I'm using the software typley and I want you to instead of basically instead of putting these in a document, I want you to actually

directly schedule these as a draft on tightfully. And so I am going to give it

tightfully. And so I am going to give it these docs to the API. Here are the docs to read. Here is my API key. It is in a

to read. Here is my API key. It is in a text file, right? So I don't want to expose it. What I'm going to do is I'm

expose it. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to go I'm going to go key.txt txt. I'm going to paste my key right

txt. I'm going to paste my key right here. So, I pasted my key in this file

here. So, I pasted my key in this file and I can just go at key.txt.

It is here. Please add to the skill using claude skills. And I'm going to mention this link right here. Please

make this skill such that it schedules it as a draft to this typefully account.

It should not post or schedule. Okay,

now we're going to wait for the skill called expost to be uh messed with.

Okay, so it is done. And here we can see that your accounts available is Riley Brown vibe code vibe coding explained.

Okay, so this works. Maybe maybe uh please test this by um drafting

one of the items in the list that we generated in and then we can just go claude skills Twitter ideas.

Okay. Okay. It looks like it is done. If

we come back here. Okay. It created

this, right? It created this on vibe coding explained. Okay. Now on the Riley

coding explained. Okay. Now on the Riley Brown account, draft a post that says,

"Hi, this is a test." Okay, so it's done. If we go back to Arc, we go to

done. If we go back to Arc, we go to Riley.

Here we go. We see, "Hi, this is a test.

This was 34 seconds ago." So that's pretty cool. We can have it draft posts.

pretty cool. We can have it draft posts.

I'm going to just reset the context here. Um, so we're opening up a new

here. Um, so we're opening up a new cloud instance to reset it, right? We're

resetting it uh so that there's no context in here. And I'm going to say, I just created a tightfully

video that explains how I created a Claude code skill in order to uh post on all my Twitter accounts via Typefully. I

want you to draft up three exposts and draft them on Typefully on the Vibe Coding Explained account. Oops, I

misspelled it. Typefully

is the app.

Okay, so we interrupted it, but it was using the Expost skill. It should go back to using the Expost skill. Okay, do

I want to proceed? Yes. Okay, so the drafts were created. Oo, it has a link associated with it. Wait, what happens

if we just go to this link? Wow,

skills repo. It even included that repo.

No way. You can build custom skills for cloud code, automate repetitive workflows, create one-click commands, share skills across projects. Zero

coding required. Just dropped a full walkth through how to do this. Wow.

Okay, so it created these posts using the typefully or the expost skill and in this skill.md file, it has access to

this skill.md file, it has access to this code, right? You can it has this code that I can that the claude code can use to post this on social media. And

what I need to do now is I need to delete my API key because I probably exposed it. All right, so there you go.

exposed it. All right, so there you go.

We just created a general agent and we gave it a skill. And you know what? I

think that's enough for you to get started. I don't want to like go crazy

started. I don't want to like go crazy and create like an agent swarm or an agent with a ton of different skills, but we just created a we used claude within cursor to create an agent. And

then we just created one simple skill.

And this is enough for you to get started because as you saw, I just gave it the link which I'll put in the description to the Claude code skills.

So claude code can make your skills for you and remember you just create you know you have the root folder right and then within your project you just have

aclad pro uh folder then you have another folder uh which is your skills folder and then within that you just

have the skill name. So this is just skill uh skill-1 folder and then in here you have a uh a skill

md file and within that file it will have a name and description and cloud code will do that for you. Just make

sure that when you create these skills right because you can create many of these. You can create skill one which we

these. You can create skill one which we did um and we didn't create more than one skill right you can create as many skills as you want. I wouldn't go overboard, but if you want to create a

general purpose agent and use Cloud Code, this is how you can do it. And you

can create a bunch of different skills.

And so, in the description down below this video, you'll find a link to a webinar. I'm just going to do like a big

webinar. I'm just going to do like a big live stream where we're going to create a really cool uh agent interface with a ton of different skills. We're going to do it live. It's going to be like 3 to

four hours long. And so, if you want to sign up for that, that's in the description. It's going to be sick. But

description. It's going to be sick. But

uh yeah, this is just part two of my general agent series. I made part one on Obsidian and I'm just going to continue this because I'm becoming much more interested in creating agents with

skills. And in the future, we're going

skills. And in the future, we're going to mix agent skills with also apps.

We're going to create a little interface where we can alternate between using an app that we create and the agent and we can create things that both me and the agent can use. It's going to be like an agent interface or an agent workspace.

And that's what we're going to talk about in the next video. Uh so thank you guys for watching.