Brief Summary
This video explains skills in Claude, highlighting their technical functionality, creation, automation, and integration with external services. It covers how skills enhance Claude's capabilities by providing structured prompts with access to instructions, scripts, and templates. The video also compares skills to MCPs, emphasizing the token efficiency and advanced features of skills.
- Skills are essentially structured prompts in a folder format, enhancing Claude's ability to perform specific tasks.
- Skills can be automated with scripts and integrated with external services, demonstrated through examples like creating documentation and shortening URLs.
- Skills offer advantages over MCPs by being more token-efficient and allowing for complex workflows and sub-agents.
Introduction
The video introduces the concept of skills in Claude, explaining that they are changing how users interact with Claude's knowledge. The video aims to explain what skills are, how to create them, and how to install them, demonstrating their practical applications. Skills are presented as a way to enhance Claude's capabilities by providing structured prompts with access to various resources.
Fonctionnement technique des skills
Skills are essentially folders containing instructions, scripts, templates, and resources that guide Claude in performing specific tasks. Unlike simple text prompts, skills function as mini workspaces, allowing Claude to access information gradually and efficiently. Skills can be stacked together for token efficiency. Skills are like commands with access to an entire folder, and Claude has created a standard for transforming commands into folders. These folders can contain scripts and templates, with a skill file containing information on which steps to use. Skills can include markdown files, scripts, templates, images, and more. They can be customized with names, descriptions, arguments, and settings for context and agents.
Créer son premier skill
The video demonstrates creating a simple skill for generating documentation within a coding project. The process involves instructing Claude to create a skill that explains how to use and add to the documentation. The created skill includes a skill.md file with the objective, name, and description, providing a quick start guide and examples. The advantage of using a skill over a command is that it structures the prompt into multiple files, allowing Claude to reference additional information as needed.
Automatisation avec des scripts
The video continues by showing how to automate tasks within a skill by creating a template and a script that initializes the template in a documentation file. Claude generates a script to copy a template file to simplify the process and teach Claude to perform a specific task. The skill is updated to include references to the new script and template. The demonstration concludes with using the skill to create new documentation for a change log, showcasing how Claude uses the script and references to update files according to a defined structure.
Intégration avec des services externes
The video illustrates real-world applications of skills by integrating them with external services. An example is shown using a skill called "/dub" that interacts with a URL shortening service (Dub.sh). The skill includes a script that allows Claude to create new shortened links via the terminal. This demonstrates how skills can automate tasks by interacting with external services without needing MCPs (Multi-Cloud Providers).
Utilisation de librairies Vercel
The video introduces the concept of sharing and reusing skills through libraries like Vercel's skill.sh. This platform allows users to share skills, such as those for Vercel best practices and Remotion. The video then demonstrates adding and testing a Remotion skill, which provides guidelines and features for creating videos. By using skill.sh, users can access and implement skills created by others, enhancing their projects with pre-built functionalities.
Test pratique avec Remotion
The video tests the Remotion skill by instructing Claude to create a presentation video for a landing page. Claude uses the Remotion skill to generate a video with specific effects and visualizations. The advantage of using the skill is that it guides Claude to create a more refined output by leveraging the features and best practices of Remotion. The video shows the generated content and discusses potential improvements through feedback and refined prompting.
Comparaison entre skills et MCP
The video compares skills and MCPs (Multi-Cloud Providers), highlighting their differences and advantages. Skills teach Claude how to do something, while MCPs allow Claude to connect to external services. MCPs are an open standard for accessing remote APIs but can consume many tokens. Skills, on the other hand, provide knowledge and can include instructions, scripts, templates, and resources. Skills optimize prompts by discovering information gradually and can be stacked together for token efficiency.
Optimisation et conclusion
The video concludes by emphasizing the advanced features of skills, such as executing them in sub-agents using context fork. The presenter encourages viewers to explore and experiment with skills to unlock their full potential in automating tasks and enhancing Claude's capabilities. The video also notes that users can create skills directly within Claude, making it accessible even without pre-existing configurations.
