Claude's Skills just got easier to manage and share - here's how

"Anthropic has distinguished itself from competitors by staying laser-focused on its enterprise customers with offerings catered to make working professionals' lives easier. The Skills feature, launched in October, aimed to do just that, and now it has received an upgrade, making it easier for organizations to take advantage. With the Skills feature, users can provide Claude with a set of instructions, including resources like brand guidelines, so that the chatbot can reference them when performing specialized tasks autonomously."

"Similar to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard launched by Anthropic for connecting AI assistants and agents to data systems seamlessly and securely, the Agent Skills open standard makes skills easier to share and deploy to everyone. In the same spirit of increased collaboration, Skills created can now be managed centrally, allowing Team and Enterprise administrators to distribute skills more easily"

"In the same spirit of increased collaboration, Skills created can now be managed centrally, allowing Team and Enterprise administrators to distribute skills more easily and control whether they are available by default or opt-in for users. Ideally, this allows employees in an organization to access all the necessary skills in one place, enabling new collaboration opportunities, while also giving administrators more control."

Anthropic has focused on enterprise customers and upgraded the Skills feature to simplify repeatable task automation for professionals. Skills allow users to provide Claude with instructions and resources such as brand guidelines so the assistant can reference them when performing specialized tasks. The company collected feedback since October and added collaboration and management improvements. Anthropic launched the Agent Skills specification as an open standard, similar to the Model Context Protocol, to make skills easier to share and deploy. Skills can now be managed centrally by Team and Enterprise administrators who can distribute them and set default or opt-in availability, enabling broader organizational access and control. Additional updates include new partners and easier access to Skills in the Tools sidebar.

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