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Anthropic
Agent Skills
Launched Oct 16, 2025
Folders of instructions, scripts and resources that Claude loads only when relevant, usable in the Claude apps, the Claude Developer Platform (API) and Claude Code.
- Surface
- App
- Availability
- Generally available
- Plans
- Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise
- Retired
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Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Claude invokes relevant skills automatically
- Same skills work across apps, API and Claude Code
- Published as an open standard (2025-12-18 update)
Weaknesses
- Requires the Code Execution Tool beta
- Team/Enterprise admins must enable org-wide
Spans app, API and Claude Code; surface set to 'app' because plans are stated for the apps. API exposes a /v1/skills endpoint.