Introduction to Agent Skills
AdvancedReusable instructions Claude applies automatically. Master SKILL.md, triggering, access control and enterprise distribution — and stop repeating yourself.
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If you find yourself pasting the same instruction into Claude every day, you should have written a skill. This day teaches how. You install a skill, watch it trigger, and — more instructively — watch it fail to trigger, because the description is the single hardest and most important line you will write. You learn the SKILL.md format, progressive disclosure so only what the task needs gets loaded, and the distinction between a skill, a prompt and an MCP server. The core module is design and testing: scoping one skill to one job, building a trigger test set with positive and negative cases, and tuning the description against measured accuracy rather than vibes. You finish with access control, versioning and deployment to a shared team repository.
What You'll Learn
- Explain what a skill is, and how it differs from a prompt and from an MCP server
- Describe how triggering works, and why the description does all the work
- Apply progressive disclosure so only what is needed gets loaded
- Write a correct SKILL.md with frontmatter, body and bundled resources
- Write a description that triggers reliably
- Scope one skill to one job
- Build a trigger test set with positive and negative cases
- Tune a description against measured accuracy rather than intuition
- Diagnose a skill that never fires, and one that fires constantly
- Restrict what a skill may do
- Version, review and distribute skills across a team
Who Can Join
- •Developers repeating the same instruction daily
- •AI and platform engineers
- •Technical leads standardising a team’s AI workflow
- •Anyone maintaining a growing pile of copy-paste prompts
PREREQUISITES
• Experience using Claude Code or the Claude API
• Comfortable with Markdown and version control
Curriculum
→ The idea
→ Skills, prompts and MCP
→ How triggering works
→ Progressive disclosure
→ Lab 0
Total: 7h across 4 modules
Tools & Technologies
Projects Included
- ▹ Lab 0 — A skill installed, triggering observed, and made to fail
- ▹ Lab M01 — A SKILL.md for one of your team’s recurring conventions
- ▹ Lab M02 — A trigger test set, and a description tuned against it
- ▹ Lab M03 — A skill packaged with access control and deployed to a shared repository
Official Certifications
Assessment is continuous and practical: 4 Applied Learning Labs (60%) and an end-of-course practical assessment (40%). Passing mark 80%, plus completion of all 4 labs and full attendance. The CertTulen Course Completion Certificate is awarded on meeting that standard.
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