Sharing Instructions and Context Across Agents with Skills
Skills let you package complex workflows into a single command. Build once, run anytime, and stop repeating yourself.
Skills are "horizontal" concerns when it comes to Claude's context. You might have an agent that focuses on backend development on a server, and you could call it a typescript-builder if you wanted.
You could also call it a backend-builder that uses the typescript skill as needed. Not the easiest to understand, but we'll get into it here.
Updated on Feb 25, 2026