What are Claude Skills?

Skills are modular, reusable packages (instructions, resources, and optional scripts) that teach Claude how your organisation works—like an onboarding guide for an assistant. They reduce one-off prompting and make results consistent across teams.

What’s new: easier deployment, discovery, and portability

• Organisation-wide management: Admins on Team and Enterprise plans can provision, restrict, and audit skills centrally.

• Skills Directory: Browse partner-built skills from Notion, Canva, Figma, Atlassian and others; install in a few clicks.

• Open standard: Anthropic’s Agent/Skills spec enables cross-platform skills that can work beyond Claude (e.g., other assistants and IDE agents).

How the open standard helps

A shared folder/spec format means you can build a skill once and run it wherever the standard is adopted—reducing vendor lock-in and speeding governance reviews.

Admin controls that fit the enterprise

Admins can assign skills to groups, define who can publish or modify them, and keep deployment auditable—so workflows scale without chaos. This addresses a common blocker: fragmented, user-by-user prompts.

The Skills Directory: fast starts from trusted partners

Launch with ready-made skills from Notion, Canva, Figma, Atlassian and more—ideal for document generation, design workflows, knowledge queries, and structured project updates.

Practical rollout (step-by-step)

1. Define governance: choose environments (Team/Enterprise), publishing rights, and review gates.

2. Start with the Directory: install a small set (e.g., Notion for PRDs, Canva for branded assets) and map them to existing workflows.

3. Build one custom skill: capture your org’s style guide or approval checklist using the published spec (agentskills.io).

4. Measure adoption: track task time saved, error rates, and review pass rates.

5. Scale and standardise: templatise high-value skills; use role-based access and versioning for change control.

Compatibility and platforms

Skills run across Claude surfaces (Claude.ai, Claude Code, API/SDK), with partners extending capabilities inside their platforms. The open standard aims to enable interoperability with other assistants where adopted.

Summary

Claude Skills now deploy like mature enterprise features: central admin, a partner directory, and an open, portable spec. Start with a governed pilot, measure the gains, and expand to a standards-based catalogue of AI workflows across your organisation.

Next Steps: Talk to Generation Digital to design a Skills rollout—governed, measurable, and aligned to your toolstack.

FAQ

Q1: What are Claude’s new Skills?
Reusable workflow packages that encode your processes (instructions/resources/scripts) so Claude delivers consistent results. Anthropic

Q2: How can admins manage them?
With organisation-wide controls on Team & Enterprise plans: assign skills, set permissions, and audit usage from a central console. AI Business

Q3: Which platforms are compatible?
The Skills Directory features partners like Notion, Canva, Figma and Atlassian; the open standard enables cross-platform use where adopted. Claude+1