AI agents spent years as a concept and then as an experiment. Now, AI companies are devoting even more time and resources than before to make their agents actually useful for end users, whether they’re consumers or professionals. Anthropic on Thursday announced its next step toward that goal: Skills for Claude. The tool is made up of “folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed to make it smarter at specific work tasks — from working with Excel [to] following your organization’s brand guidelines,” per a release. People can also build their own Skills for Claude relative to their specific jobs and use them across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Anthropic’s API, and the Claude Agent SDK. Box, Rakuten, and Canva have already used the tool, according to the release. Essentially, the feature is designed to improve Claude’s AI agent capabilities for your work specifically, so you don’t have to spend as much time writing the perfect prompt or referring to past context every time you’re trying to accomplish a task. It’s available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.

Full report : Anthropic announces Skills for Claude, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve performance on some tasks.