Learn to equip AI agents with reusable skills

I'm thrilled to introduce this course on agent skills built in partnership with Enthropic and taught by Eddie Chopic.

Skills are a new way to equip Claude code and other agents with ondemand knowledge. In this course, you learn how

knowledge. In this course, you learn how they work, explore best practices for creating them, and build skills for coding, research, data analysis, and

more. You specify a skill by creating or

more. You specify a skill by creating or downloading a folder containing instructions, scripts, and references for carrying out a particular task. Your

agent then dynamically loads the content of the right skill to perform that task reliably. For example, maybe one skill

reliably. For example, maybe one skill will contain a checklist of code quality criteria for reviewing your codebase. Or

another skill might include instructions for writing SQL queries against your team's data infrastructure. And yet

another might describe a repeatable workflow for analyzing customer data.

You create these skills once and make them available to any skill compatible agent which then invokes them when needed to access that domain expertise.

Skills were originally developed by Anthropic and are now an open standard adopted by a growing number of agentic applications. In this course, you'll see

applications. In this course, you'll see skills in action across cloud AI, cloud code, the cloud API, and the cloud agent SDK. Because the format is standardized,

SDK. Because the format is standardized, you can use the same skills with any other compatible agent and compose them to create complex workflows. You'll

learn how to combine skills with other parts of your agent stack, such as MCP, sub aents, [music] and use them together to build powerful agentic systems. As OM become more capable, the code you need

to write to train an agent is becoming simpler. Basic tooling like file system

simpler. Basic tooling like file system access and bash for code execution enables your agents to take a wide range of actions. Skills further give agents

of actions. Skills further give agents the specialized knowledge they need to handle specialized workflows accurately.

I hope you enjoy the course.