Claude Code Skills: Build Your Own AI Workflows

This course teaches you how to create Claude Code Skills — packaging repetitive workflows into reusable instructions so Claude works the way your project needs. It's for developers who already use Claude Code and want to customize how it works.

Course outline

1. What Skills Are: Why You Need Custom Workflows
2. Anatomy of a Skill: The SKILL.md File
3. Hands-On: Writing Your First Skill
4. Testing and Debugging: Making Sure Your Skill Behaves
5. Case Study: Building a Code Review Skill
6. Advanced Patterns: Making Skills More Powerful

Learning goals

By the end of this course you'll be able to:

• Understand how Skills work and where they apply
• Write a well-structured SKILL.md file on your own
• Test and debug your Skills
• Build production-ready custom workflows for real projects
• Apply best practices that keep Skills reliable and maintainable

Prerequisites

• You've used Claude Code's basic features
• You know basic Markdown syntax
• You can run simple commands in a terminal
• You have experience with any programming language

Estimated time

About 3-4 hours, including the hands-on exercises.