Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills
by Anthropic
Packaging instructions and scripts as loadable skills.
The article explains packaging task knowledge and supporting files for an agent to load when needed. It offers a way to separate reusable procedures from the immediate conversation.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Models
- claude
- Category
- Context Engineering
- Tags
- harness, skills
- Source date
- 2025-10-16
- Added
- 2026-10-18
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
- Status
- ok
- Prerequisites
- Assumes basic LLM familiarity or the ability to read examples and configure a workflow.
- Subcategory
- agent instruction files
- Region
- West
- Original language
- en
- Access
- free
- Resource reuse
- closed: No general open-reuse grant established from the inspected page. Closed is the conservative index bucket, not a legal finding; the resource is publicly readable. Facet definitions
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