Claude Code Skills: Build Custom Workflows for Your AI Coding Assistant

Claude Code Skills: Build Custom Workflows for Your AI Coding Assistant Claude Code ships with a general-purpose AI assistant. Skills let you specialize it. A skill is a markdown file that teaches Claude Code how to handle a specific type of task: deploying to Kubernetes, writing database migrations, reviewing pull requests, or following your team's coding conventions. The difference between "write me a React component" and "write me a React component following our design system, using our custom hooks, with proper error boundaries and accessibility attributes" is a skill. What Skills Actually Are A skill is a markdown file in .claude/commands/ (project-level) or ~/.claude/commands/ (global). When you type /skill-name in Claude Code, the file's content gets injected into the conversation as instructions. .claude/ commands/ deploy.md # /deploy review-pr.md # /review-pr write-test.md # /write-test That's it. No special syntax, no compilation, no SDK. Just markdown that describes how to d