Skills: Make Workflows Permanent
A prompt is something you write. A Skill is something you own — and can share with your whole team. When a workflow is good enough to want identical every time, make it a Skill.
What a Skill is
A packaged, reusable capability — instructions, examples and reference files bundled so Claude does a specific job your way, consistently, without re-prompting. Your best prompt, graduated into a permanent button. Skills work across chat, Cowork and the Office add-ins (e.g. a standard variance analysis or a house-style deck).
Install ready-made
Grab Skills from the marketplace / plugins — pre-built capabilities you can use immediately.
Build your own
Use the Skill Creator — Claude helps you make it, no coding. (This very course was built with a custom minisite Skill.)
Interactive: Skill Scoper
Scope a Skill for the one task you do most. Fill it in — or load an example — and watch a clean Skill spec assemble.
Where Skills fit the system
The recurring, valuable work becomes a Skill; the knowledge lives in a Project; the reach into your apps comes from Connectors; the execution happens in Cowork. That's a personal operating system, not a chat window — and it's exactly the stack the Module 7 case study runs on.
Key takeaway
When a workflow is good enough to want identical every time, make it a Skill. That's how a clever prompt becomes a permanent capability the whole team can share. Start with one — the Skill you use daily pays back the effort in a week.