"Anthropic launched Skills for Claude on Wednesday, a new feature aimed at making the company's flagship AI chatbot more customizable for individual users and businesses. You can think of Skills as little digital instruction manuals, each of which can be used by Claude to guide its behavior on a given task. Anthropic described them in a blog post as "custom onboarding materials that let you package expertise, making Claude a specialist on what matters most to you.""
"For example, say you're turning to Claude for help creating a pitch deck for a prospective new client. Rather than having to meticulously explain the subtleties of your brand's voice and approach to sales, Claude can automatically reference the "Brand guidelines" Skill you've previously uploaded, and from there, infer everything it needs to know to generate a PowerPoint presentation that's tailor-made for your company."
Anthropic launched Skills for Claude, a feature that packages expertise as custom onboarding materials to guide Claude's behavior on specific tasks. Built-in skills support generating Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, while users and businesses can create and upload custom Skills. Claude can automatically select relevant Skills based on prompts, enabling faster, more consistent outputs that reflect brand voice, preferences, or domain expertise. Skills reduce the need to repeatedly explain requirements, and can make Claude more agentic by providing structured procedures. Increased personalization through Skills introduces higher access to personal and organizational data, which elevates privacy and security risks.
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