How Claude Skills Work in 150 seconds

Claude Skills explained with no talking: watch what a skill is, what's inside SKILL.md, and what Claude actually loads (and when) as it makes an on-brand slide deck. A skill is a folder you teach Claude once. Claude keeps only each skill's name and description in mind, reads the full SKILL.md when a request matches, and runs the skill's scripts only when a step needs them. Anthropic's Agent Skills docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview 0:00 Asking Claude for a sales deck 0:27 The deck comes out off-brand 0:38 Pasting the brand guide into every chat 0:56 Turning the guidelines into a skill 1:26 Installing it: Settings → Capabilities → Skills 1:44 Same ask again: what loads, and when 2:16 Recap Who it's for: anyone who uses Claude and keeps hearing about "skills" but hasn't set one up yet. No coding needed to follow along. No voice-over. Just stick figures using a real-looking desktop. Next up in the series: how Claude Mods work. This is an independent channel, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. The brand ("Acme") and its files in the video are made up for the example.