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Claude Skills

Claude Skills are reusable, shareable prompts that extend Claude Code with standardized workflows for common tasks.

Why use Skills?​

  • Consistency — the same task runs the same way every time, regardless of who triggers it.
  • Shareability — skills can be shared across a team so everyone follows the same process.
  • Less repetition — instead of typing long instructions repeatedly, invoke a skill with a short command.
  • Composability — skills can call other tools and chain actions together into multi-step workflows.

How to use a Skill​

Invoke a skill using the / prefix followed by the skill name:

/skill-name

You can also pass arguments:

/skill-name argument1 argument2

Examples​

/commit

Generates a commit message based on your staged changes and commits them.

/review-pr 123

Fetches pull request #123 and performs a code review.

/pdf report.pdf

Reads and summarizes the contents of a PDF file.

Finding available Skills​

Type / in the Claude Code prompt to see a list of available skills. Skills may come from:

  • Built-in skills — provided by Claude Code out of the box.
  • Team/organization skills — added by your organization via plugins.
  • Custom skills — created by you or your team for project-specific workflows.

Creating a custom Skill​

Use the /skill-creator skill to build your own:

/skill-creator

Claude will guide you through defining the skill's trigger conditions, instructions, and behavior.