Agent Skills
Teach Claude your way of working
A Claude capability for packaging specialized instructions, scripts, and resources into reusable skills that Claude discovers and loads when relevant across Claude apps, Claude Code, the Agent SDK, and the API.
Recent stories
A paper summary found agent skills caused regressions across nearly 6,000 paired office-automation runs. VS Code also added prompt-to-skill migration, making the workflow more accessible despite reliability cautions.
A UW study found coding agents can refuse malicious memory-file instructions while preserving the payload for later use. The state-management debate also covered callable memories, reusable skills, and session-history eval pipelines.
Practitioners are sharing smaller, staged coding-agent loops instead of one large prompt. Examples include a Claude Code software factory, project-specific review agents, searchable logs, and harness layers for evals and observability.
Reddit users reported Claude Code subagents hanging while burning quota, inconsistent usage meters, oversized contexts, slow desktop output, and a verify skill consuming a full limit. The common issue was unreliable usage accounting.