Equipping Agents for the Real World with Agent Skills
October 16, 2025Author: Barry Zhang, Keith Lazuka, Mahesh Murag | Anthropic
Anthropic introduces Agent Skills, organized folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and load dynamically to perform better at specific tasks. Using progressive disclosure design principles, Skills transform Claude from general-purpose to specialized agents, like creating an onboarding guide for new hires. This approach makes agent capabilities more composable, scalable, and portable.