Claude Skills Explained: 4 Skills to 10x Your Coding Workflow

In this video, I'm going to give you a complete beginner guide on claw skills.

And specifically, I'm going to talk about why we should use claw skills.

What are the three reasons why we should use it right now? And also, I'm going to talk about how claw skills work behind the scene. How does it work with sub

the scene. How does it work with sub agents, MCB servers, and also the overall agent workflow? And lastly, I'm going to show you my top four cloud skills that actually 10x my productivity when I use Claude every single day. So,

by the end of this video, you will become a Claw skill master. not only

know why to use it and when to use it, but also know how you can use it to 10x your productivity with Claude. So, with

that being said, if you're interested, let's get into it. All right, so before we jump in, a quick intro for those who are new here. My name is Eric and I have spent years as a senior software engineer at companies like Amazon, AWS,

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All right, so now what I want to tell us is what's the reason why we should use claw skill. And the first reason why we

claw skill. And the first reason why we should use it is because it's really good at doing specific and repeatable task. Let's say we have claw skill here.

task. Let's say we have claw skill here.

Help us to design a nice front end.

Right? The first time the process is going to be very painful because you have to tell Claude exactly what kind of style, what kind of color, what kind of typography it's going to use to create a nice perfect front end that you imagine,

right? And after that process is done,

right? And after that process is done, you can be able to have claw here to create a cloud skill so that you can be able to reuse it. So the next time when you give it a prompt saying that help me to design a nice front end, then claw will know exactly what kind of style,

what kind of typographies, what kind of UI design is count as nice front end. So

the process here is much more smooth and the AI here won't hallucinate so much because claw skills will tell AI exactly how to create those things. And the

second reason why we should use claw skill is that it also help you to save context because before when we don't have claw skills we will have to use claw rules which is kind of like a system prompts that we pass to claude every time we talk to cla right but the

problem with claw rules is that every time when you talk to claude you had to pass all the claw rules or all the system prompts to claw agent here to basically give you the response. But the

thing is that not all the rules are relevant to what you're asking for. And

that's why claw skill is really different is because now cloud will automatically pick the right skill to the request that you're asking for.

Right? So let's say you're trying to design a nice front end. Then basically

cloud will find the right skills or maybe like a front-end skill or maybe like a UX UI skill that will basically help you to complete the task that's relevant to what you're asking for.

Okay. So that will help you to save so much context during the process of using claude. And the last reason why we

claude. And the last reason why we should use claw skill is that it's also really easy to share, right? You can

think of claw skill as like a SOP where basically creates a SOP to guide the AI on how to exactly do things, right? And

what you can do is that you can basically have this cloud skill to export in a zip file so that you can share with other people, right? Share

this with other employers or co-workers.

And what you can do is that you can also create multiple sub aents and each sub aents here can have a shared same clause skills that's being created earlier that you have in your projects. So it's much more easier for you to share, right? And

also much more easier to save context and also help you automate a specific and reusable task. So those are the three main reasons why we should use claw skills to basically improve our productivity for every time we're using

claw. All right, so now you know why we

claw. All right, so now you know why we should use claw skills. So now let's take a look at how it works behind the scene. So right here you can see that we

scene. So right here you can see that we have our agent configurations right this is going to be our clawed agents and basically inside of our configurations we have three main parts one is our core system prompts right like what I

mentioned before like our claw rules uh static system prompts that will be sent to every conversation that we're going to have with claude and then we also have our equipped skills so these are skills that we can add later on for

example we can add a skill particularly that can handle PDF that can handle excel sheets that can handle like PBTX or like powerpoints right so this is our equipped skills for our clot and we also

have our equipped MCP servers. So MCP

servers if you don't know what it is you can check out this video right here which I'm exactly how MCP server work but basically you can think of MCP like a tools a list of tools that AI agent here can call for example it can be able

to you know search data on the web it can be able to call like API to fetch data from like your database or like GitHub create a pull request on your behalf so those are MTB servers right so

these are the three main key components of our agent configurations and what happens here is that for every agent here it has a agent virtual machine and this virtual machine here has access to like bash commands, have access to

Python, Node.js, any type of language, right? And then we also have our file

right? And then we also have our file system and what this file system does here is that basically contains the list of contents for the skill directory. So

all the skills that you create that you add will be live in here inside of this file system and each skill here we have the skill.md file which basically the

the skill.md file which basically the description of what the skill look like, right? And then we also could have like

right? And then we also could have like data sources. We also could have like

data sources. We also could have like Python scripts. So after the skill is

Python scripts. So after the skill is being triggered by claude, it will basically execute a script to basically get informations that we need to guide the AI on the right track. So in this case to put it in practice here, you can see that we have a situation where a

user ask you to fill this PDF form based on what you know about me and here is the location on where the file is. So

claw will basically think about it and try to see okay what kind of skill we're going to use right so you can see that it's going to be a PDF. So it's going to use the PDF skill claw automatically identify what skill related to our query be able to call the right skills and

call the right tools to basically complete the user request. All right. So

now you know how it works and why we should use it. Let me show you four claw skills that will boost your productivity whenever you're using claude. But before

I show you the first claw code skill that I personally use, one thing to note here is that you can see I opened a projects called bookkeeping applications. In this project, I

applications. In this project, I basically built this using Nets.js. And

you can check out the full tutorial on how did I build this applications using this five MCB servers that I show you in this video right here. But moreover,

basically what this application does is that it's a bookkeeping application that keep track of your receipts, your bank statements and later you can be able to use that to prepare your tax and file it. Right? So right here you can see

it. Right? So right here you can see this is a landing page. We have all the features here and here we can also be able to log in to our application. This

is our dashboard. We can also match our transactions and also this is where we upload our bank statements and also this is where we upload our receipts and keep track of them inside of our tables. So

what I want to do now is basically try to introduce you the first clause skill that I use which is the front end design skill from claw code. And what it can do is that it will basically create a production grade front end interface with high quality design. So based on

what your application does, it will first try to understand the applications and then it try to create a design that's best fit for your application.

And just to keep in mind that this is what it looks like right now for our applications. And if I were to navigate

applications. And if I were to navigate to our landing page, this is what it looks like right now. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to follow this guide right here to basically install the marketplace from our Claw Code. And

then I'm going to install this plugin right here, which is the front end design. And I'm just going to tell Clo

design. And I'm just going to tell Clo here to redesign our entire front end.

So in this case, let's take a look at how it works. So right here, I'm just going to copy this command right here.

Navigate back to my CLCO session. And

I'm just going to run this. basically

try to install the claw code plugins inside of our marketplace. Because I

already have this installed, I'm just going to use the slash plugin right now.

So, if I were to do the slash plugin, right? And here you can see I have my

right? And here you can see I have my marketplace right here, which you can see that we have claw code plugins installed. So, now we're going to do now

installed. So, now we're going to do now is try to install the front-end design skill. So, right here, I'm just going to

skill. So, right here, I'm just going to copy this command. But because I already have this installed on my local machine, if I were navigate to installed, you can see that I have this one installed. But

for yourself, you're probably just going to run this again inside of your clock session. So what we're going to do now

session. So what we're going to do now is basically try to instruct clco here to, you know, use the front end design skill to redesign our application. And

because I already have done so here you can see that after I have using the clock session here instructed, clo uses the front-end design skill basically redesign the entire application for this

u front end. And you can see this what it looks like. So right here you can see it gives me a complete redesign of our landing page and it used to be using the blue now it's using the green. Okay. So

right here you can see we have the you know on boarding sessions the entire typography is changed the testimonials right you can see the call to actions as well as the footer are completely changed. So now if I were to log in to

changed. So now if I were to log in to the applications and if I were to sign in here you can see this what the dashboard look like. So right here you can see it still looks like what it used to be but it's just that the entire

theme typographies the styles are all changed right and you can see that the matchings here are still exist. So

pretty much you can see that the style here are consistent throughout the entire application which is really cool.

So in this case that's pretty much how we can use the front-end design skills in clock code to basically give yourself or give your application a complete redesign that's make it much more like a production ready. And I'll make sure to

production ready. And I'll make sure to leave the link for this post in the description below so that you can check it out. So the next skill that I want to

it out. So the next skill that I want to show you here is the domain name brainstormer which will basically help you to find a domain name for your project. So let's say if you have

project. So let's say if you have building like bunch of projects and you're struggle to find the right domain name that's available that's the best fit for your projects then this claw skill here will help you to do so. And

here you can see that what this claw skill does is that basically you provide a instruction saying that help me to find a domain name for this program projects. And what it does here is that

projects. And what it does here is that it's going to look through all the domain names online and try to find what are the domain names that are available and what are the domain names that's best fit for our target audience and

also what are the key features that this domain name has right and all in all it will basically gather try to find the right domain name and it'll help you to rank it to figure out what's the best pick for the domain name for this

current projects. For example, this

current projects. For example, this project is good for developer short and memorable and also has the.dev dev extensions which adds credibility and most importantly this domain name is available right now right so what we can

do here is that I'm just going to download this folder right here which you can see is called the domain name brainstormer which only has the skilld file and once I download this I basically add it onto our projects so

here you can seeclaw folder there I create a folder called skills and inside this folder I create a folder called domain name brainstormer which basically I just drag that folder entirely into this skill folder and I basically

restart my claw session and now what I can do is that based on this project that I have right now, can you use the domain name brainstormer skill to basically help me to brainstorm the right domain name for this project? So

that's going to be my prompt and I'm just going to send this request and right away you can see that claw here triggers a domain name brainstormer here to basically trigger the skill and basically chatter generates the relevant domain suggestions. So in this case

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Here you can see that as a result this is what the AI generates after cloud skills has generated using the domain searcher. Here you can see that we have

searcher. Here you can see that we have our premium AI domains right here which are all available right and they're all in with.AI AI extension. There's also

the strong.com options, the io or the tech forward options and here is the top tech recommendations and they're all available in this link right here which shows in real time results and you can

see that it also concludes the finding of the budget forai and this is the minimum two year of registrations.

Pretty much what we can do here from now is just pick the domains that we want and just go with it. Right? So pretty

much that's how we can use the domain finder skill to find the right domain for our projects. Okay. So the next skill that we're going to show you here is the Stripe scale. This is really important because if you're going to have accepting payment for your applications and it's really important

to keep it consistent for how you're going to integrate your Stripe payments into your application. So right here you can see I have navigated to a very special skill called Stripe skill or Stripe integration skill. Basically it's

going to master the Stripe payment processing. We can actually be able to

processing. We can actually be able to create a skill and have our AI here have clogg here to implement the stripe payment consistently. Okay. So, for

payment consistently. Okay. So, for

example, creating a checkout session, right? Creating a one-time payment or

right? Creating a one-time payment or creating a custom payment flow. You can

see that this documentation or this cloud skill here has already create this thing automatically, right? So, all we had to do here just tell it to implement this inside of our applications and should be able to implement in the right way. So, in our case, basically, we're

way. So, in our case, basically, we're just going to navigate to the Stripe integration here. You can see that we

integration here. You can see that we only have one file in this folder, which is the skill MD file. And I'm just going to download this folder right here.

Navigate back to claw code. In this

case, I'm just going to drag the skill into this skill folder. And right here, I'm just going to restart my claw section. And here I'm just going to say

section. And here I'm just going to say based on the application right now, please use the Stripe integration skill to integrate our Stripe payment inside of our application. Okay. So then here is our prompt. So I'm just going to switch to plan mode and basically have

Clocko here to use the Stripe integration skill to build our Stripe integration. And then here I'm just

integration. And then here I'm just going to run this. All right. So right

now we can see it's first going to analyze the application here and try to explore the clear understanding of the application. Here is the summary. So

application. Here is the summary. So

here you can see that we did not implement the payment processing. We did

not implement the subscription management. And here you can see that

management. And here you can see that there's the recommended uh payment structure. So right here based on the

structure. So right here based on the existing pricing page, here is what it recommends. So we have our starter plan

recommends. So we have our starter plan which is no payment required. There's

the growth plan which is most popular and it has the 14-day free trial.

There's also the pro plan which is the $39 per month and it also includes the 14 days free trial. So here you can see what it does here is that it's going to analyze the application, create a plan, and before it do so, it's going to ask

me some serious questions to clarify the intent. So it says that you want to

intent. So it says that you want to offer a 14 days free trial for the growth and the pro plan. Here I'm just going to say yes for the 7 days free trial instead. And here's asking us if

trial instead. And here's asking us if you have the Stripe API keys. I'm just

going to say yes, I do. And then here, what are the plan changes? Should be

able to upgrade or downgrade? And yes,

I'm just going to say allow that. And

basically, you can see these are the answers that I have. I'm just going to submit the answer here. And of course, if you ever wonder where you can be able to get the API keys, you can navigate to your Stripe dashboard. And here there is a developer. So if you click on

a developer. So if you click on developer, there's API keys. And here

you can see that we have our publishable keys and also secret keys. So we're

going to need those tools inside of our MV.local file to call the right Stripe

MV.local file to call the right Stripe account to get a payment, right? So in

this case, once you get your publish key and your secret key, you can literally add this in your file and then be able to use it eventually. Okay. So what

we're going to do now is that I'm just going to come back to claw code. And

here you can see this the entire plan for our bookkeeper pro application.

Right? So here is the current stack the payment structure the plan for the management as well as the gating tier.

So for example like the starter plan you get the unlimited receipt scanning.

Great. The categorizations also the CSV export which is perfect. But what you don't get is you don't get the bank reconciliations the automated invoicing and also tax optimizations. Right? So

you don't get those things for the starter plan but growth plan you do. Uh

there's also the database setup. So for

example, you can. So here you can see it's also going to set up the database table for the subscriptions and also subscription plan as well as the strike configurations, the backend API routes, endpoints as well as the front

integrations, the web hooks. And if you were to scroll all the way down, you can see here that it's going to use the stripe integration scale to implement the checkout, the customer portal, the web hook handlers, the database schema

for the subscription tracking, and also the future gating middleware. So this is not something that cloud code knows by itself. This is going to be something

itself. This is going to be something that it calls our skill that we created and we will implement this entirely.

Okay. So in this case I'm just going to say yes and bypass all permission and it's going to design everything completely by itself. Okay. So in this case let's wait for a bit while it's doing that. Okay. So as result you can

doing that. Okay. So as result you can see the stripe integration here has fully complete. And now you can see that

fully complete. And now you can see that we have three tiers starter growth and also the protier. So now if I were to navigate to thev.example example file.

Here you can see that we have five environment variables that's created for this application. So we have our publish

this application. So we have our publish key as well as the secret key, the web hook secret as well as the pricing ID for the growth and also the pro plan.

Right? So you can see that we can simply just going to get these things um inside of our dashboard in our stripe. Then we

can be able to add this in inside of ourv.local file and we can be able to

ourv.local file and we can be able to use it. So in this case I'm just going

use it. So in this case I'm just going to fill this in inside myv.loc local

file and navigate it to our applications and try to log in and try to see if the payment gateway is fully set up. And now

if I were to navigate to our application here, if I were to choose a plan, for example, I'm just going to choose the growth plan. If I were to click on start

growth plan. If I were to click on start on this plan and here you can see that it navigate us to the checking page. And

right here you can see that currently I create a sandbox environment so they can be able to process it using a test account. So right here you can see that

account. So right here you can see that we have our bookkeepers growth plan 7 days free trial and after that it's going to be $19 per month starting January 3rd. And all I have to do here

January 3rd. And all I have to do here just simply just enter the card informations with the test card. And now

if I were to click on start a free trial, it's going to process this. And

now you can see that the test payment here has been successful. And if I were to click on the settings here and currently you can see that we're using the growth tier which is costing $19 per month. So pretty much that's how we can

month. So pretty much that's how we can use the stripe integration clause skill to guide the AI here to basically build our payment system for our application.

All right. So the last skill we're going to take a look at for this entire video here is going to be the skill creator.

And this skill here help us to create claw skills for our entire projects. And

to use this skill, basically we just provide instructions on what kind of skill we want to create. And it's going to trigger this skill creator to basically help us create a skill. And to

do so, I basically have claw here do a research on exactly what's the best way to review code. Because for a day-to-day workflow, I have to review tons of code from different projects, right? And I

have to give a lot of feedback to people. So that's why I want to create

people. So that's why I want to create this skill that I can be able to delegate this work to AI that can have AI here to create a consistent feedback based on different projects that we encounter. So right here you can see

encounter. So right here you can see that there are different things that we're going to have AI here to do deep research on what's the best way for technical review here. What's the best practice for especially for NestJ architecture patterns as well as React

and TypeScript projects as well as what's the multi-perspect review, right?

Especially for higher level like senior developers or staff engineers. You're

not just reviewing just the technical side of things. You also have to review the system based on different roles. For

example, like an architect, product manager, QA or user experience overall.

try to evaluate the codebase to see if it actually solved that business problem, right? And also what is the

problem, right? And also what is the code review methodologies, right? Make

sure that if we want to use top- down approach, time allocation strategies, we're also doing the documentation review and also making sure that we stand on the product and the user experience perspective. Try to make sure

experience perspective. Try to make sure that the product here is focusing on the customer first thinking, right? Making

sure that customer is actually able to use this product and is able to solve the problem that they're facing and also what is the mobile experience look like?

What is the usability, right? So

basically it's going to do a deep research on this simply just going to use the deep research right here in the cloud and it'll basically automatically help you to look through like tons of resource. You can see that it's going to

resource. You can see that it's going to look through like 432 sources online and try to conduct this entire research and conclude it into a one single MD file.

Right? And what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to open a cloud session.

I'm just going to reference the research file which is the one that we just done for the research from Claude. And then

I'm just going to say that please use the skill creator skill to basically create a skill based on this research that we have done. And then here's basically my prompt. So I'm just going to send this to Claude and let Claude

here to basically handle this trigger the skill creator skill. And here you can see that's going to use the skill creator skill to basically build a comprehensive co-review skill based on the research document that we have provided. So right here you can see that

provided. So right here you can see that it's triggering the skill creator reading the research.md file and eventually you can see that it creates the skill creator skill inside of our skills folder right here. So you can see that we have our skill MD file. We also

have a couple references on the NJS patterns the perspective the report templates and all those kind of things.

Okay. So what we can do now is that if we want to review this we can actually open this doc and here you can see that this is the NESJS code review skill and basically this is when to use the skill right. This is basically telling AI what

right. This is basically telling AI what are times when we're going to trigger the scale for example reviewing the NJS pull request or if there's code changes and also for the existing codebase for quality security and performance and

then in terms of our review there's different phases we have architecture review so that's going to be the first step uh things like checking out the overall design identify if there's any blocking issues and then also there's

the file structure review try to evalate the organizations the naming conventions and also the expected structure Um after that's done we also have our detailed component review. This is going to be

component review. This is going to be more like reviewing line by line and try to stand on all six expert perspectives like senior developers, system architects. There's also PMs and also

architects. There's also PMs and also the user Q engineer and also the business analyst. Okay, so pretty much

business analyst. Okay, so pretty much this is the phase three. And after all is done, we're going to create a documentation review and then at the end it's going to generate a review report that's very similar to like this where it's going to mention what are the

findings, what are the issues that I found and whether or not this codebase or this pull request is approved. So

pretty much you can see that this is the entire um skill that we have created and what I'm going to do here is I'm going to open a clause session and I'm just going to say using the NestJS code review skill and please help me to

review the entire codebase for this application and basically this is my prompt and I'm just going to submit this to Claude and hopefully Claude will basically trigger the Nest.js code review scale which you can see is asking

if you want to proceed with the NestJS code review scale. I'm just going to say yes and then it's going to bree through the entire NestJS code review skills and try to understand how it's going to review this uh four-phase methodologies.

Right? So right here you can see it's going to be doing the phase one for architecture review. So in this case

architecture review. So in this case pretty much that's how we can be able to use the claw skill creator here to create a new skill instead of claude. So

pretty much that's what we have covered in this video. We cover why we should use claw skills, what are three reasons, and how does it work behind the scenes, as well as my top four claw skills that you can use to boost your productivities

using clot. So, pretty much that's it

using clot. So, pretty much that's it for this video. And if you do find out in this video, please make sure to like this video, consider subscribing for more content like this. But with that being said, I'll see you in the next video.