The Only Claude Skills Guide Beginners Need in 2027

A hands-on beginner's guide to Claude Skills: what a skill is, where to find yours in the Claude app, how to make one by asking Claude, and how to run and improve it. I also explain why skills you make in Claude Code don't show up in Claude Chat, and why you should only trust skills that you or your colleagues have made.

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Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:22 What a Claude skill is 1:17 Skills vs projects 1:47 When to make a skill 2:37 Turn on "Create and edit files" 3:21 Where to find your skills 4:28 Inside a skill: SKILL.md and its folders 7:59 Skills, connectors and plugins 8:44 Skills already in Claude 9:58 Turning skills on and off 10:11 Making a skill by asking Claude 11:38 Recording your screen to make a skill 12:05 Adding a skill someone gives you 12:42 How skills run 13:35 Improving your skills 15:34 Claude Chat vs Claude Code 18:28 Sharing skills on Team and Enterprise 18:56 Only trust skills you or your team made 19:43 Recap

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