00:01Claude just launched skills

00:01It's one of those amazing tools in the education space that is really changing how we take a look at courses and more importantly how we think about our own personal moat on how we can protect our skills because now we can create skills and sell them

00:18I'm going to show you how to do that

00:19But more importantly, we can add as many skills as we want, as many skills as we need, as quickly as we need them to our own library of available skills that our AI agents have available to them when we're starting, building, and growing our own education business

00:37If you haven't seen these before, my name is James Trading.io

00:38We talk about everything having to do with starting, building, growing education business, specifically AI learning communities

00:46And today, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through a little bit more detail on the skills that Claude launched on Thursday of last week

00:52And I'm actually going to show you how they get installed and how they can get created

00:57And in fact, how you can create them

00:59And in the next video, we'll spend some time actually taking a look at how you can monetize your skills by creating your own skills packages

01:06Now, I know I'm talking quickly in this one because I'm really excited about it

01:11I've created four or five skills in the last uh couple hours

01:16The problem I'm running into is I'm running out of rate limit use on my Claude install

01:21That's one of the things you have to recognize is uh I'm going to bring up the page here is you do need a paid version of Claude

01:28I'll just show you the one that I have here

01:30Going to open it up so that you can see it and make sure we're on a good screen here

01:34So, this is the paid version

01:36I'm on my desktop

01:36If you look in the bottom lefthand corner, it says pro plan, which is the very very first level of uh the cheapest level of paid plan

01:45You do need a paid plan

01:45Uh and this particular brand new part that they just launched is something called skills

01:53And if I'm going to put the links to it, but you can find out at the anthropic.com/news

02:00And if you're not familiar, we're uh Anthropic is the parent company of Claude, which is the large language model tool uh that we have installed and it's one of the ones I use on a regular basis and I've done a number of videos on

02:12Now, if you look on the right hand side here, we'll do this one just so you can see it

02:17Uh it says introducing skill agents

02:20I'll put the link

02:20Please go and watch the short video that's there and a little bit of an explanation

02:24Um, these are different than custom GPTs, and I'm going to show you why in a second

02:28Um, but these are absolutely amazing because they take prompting and context for all of the work we do explaining the situation

02:39It removes all of that and allows us just like Neo and the Matrix to learn any skill that we need at any point that we need it

02:47So all of the things that you want to hand off to those AI agent or agents to get work done and you want to make sure that they're following a standard operating procedure that you've decided is the best way to do things in a second

03:01Done

03:01As many as you want your own library of unlimited skills for you or for your customers andor students, people that you're teaching

03:13So quick look at this couple things here

03:15Here's the video

03:15Uh, and I'll show you how to enable them and some of the ones that are there

03:19But here's the part that is kind of interesting

03:20These skills stack together

03:23So, think of them as specific agents for a specific task and you can stack them together and Claude understands which agent or which skill to use at which point to get a completed task done

03:37And I'm going to show you how this fits together as well

03:41It's also available not only in the cloud uh desktop but it's in the API in the apps it's available everywhere in all of the claude tools

03:49Now when I'm doing this which is 4 days after it launched thing to remember is this is a standard that came out from anthropic just like model context protocol that thing we've been talking about earlier that allows your AI tool to connect to multiple different tools

04:04I think this skill will be a kind of a de facto standard across the industry

04:09So I would suspect that everyone is going to start launching this in the next uh week to two weeks as it comes on

04:16So it's completely a portal uh um portable efficient

04:21Uh if you've been using any of the AI tools, what often happens is you'll get into any of the longer or more complex tasks and it goes, "Oh, sorry

04:30The context window is full

04:30You got to restart again." The way that these ones work is these skills are only added when needed

04:37So it means the context or that skill package

04:39It doesn't get uploaded and use up all of your tokens right away

04:44It only gets used when it's actually needed

04:47Um, and these ones can also include code and run things and create files

04:55All of that additional stuff that would be great if we're doing a whole bunch of task related items that have to do with creating content, marketing content, organizing or running our business

05:07all of those SOPs that you may have thinking um think of or want to be uh creating or doing or not doing and would like someone to do it perfectly each and every time

05:18So, where do they come in? How do they fit? And uh why don't I show you right here? Um if you are using Claude, we'll just pull up the screen

05:26So, you have it bottom lefthand corner

05:28You can see just where the bottom left is there

05:30You'll see that there's a little thing here that says James Pro plan

05:34What I want you to do is make sure that you have the pro version or at least a paid version

05:37You go to settings and then when you click settings, you'll see there's one here called capabilities and I want you to click capabilities

05:47When you're in capabilities, you'll see where it says experimental here

05:49Make sure that code execution and file creation is enabled

05:54And then down below it, you're going to see skills

05:57And there's a whole bunch of them here that are ones that Anthropic created

06:02But we can also upload our own skills

06:06And I'm going to show you how this works

06:09And then in some future videos, I'll show you how to actually get into the meat and potatoes of this

06:14The cool thing that is available right off the start is that Anthropic created a skill which is for skill creator

06:25So all we need to do is basically ask it to create a skill and it will create a skill for us

06:31And this one is actually turned on

06:33So I made sure to enable it

06:36We'll look at it in a second

06:39The other part that's interesting is that there was some from Anthropic, right? But if you look here, I've also created the lesson plan creator, the educational skill creator

06:50I'm creating my own skills that are educationally uh focused

06:54I have my brand guidelines

06:57I have a skill description generator

06:57I have a lesson hook creator

06:59All sorts of stuff right here

07:02So, why don't we take a look at this one here

07:03I've got my lesson hook creator

07:05Let's try this one first so you can see how they work

07:07So, I'm just going to go and we'll do the try and chat

07:14And this is a default message

07:14And I'm just going to say make sure my keyboard is engaged here

07:23you say use my I'm going to just say use my lesson hook creator because I'm telling it what skill I want to use um for a I'm just going to say for on on boarding new students to a class

07:49So, what's happened is Claude has actually gone and it's gone to my library of skills and it's reading the lesson hook creator skill to understand how to use it properly

07:58So, I asked it basically to create a lesson hook for my lesson on this topic and it's actually gone and do it

08:06Now, I had this skill set up so it would create five different hooks with five different hook styles

08:15So, this is what I got

08:15Hook one, the painoint opener

08:17And it's a problem painpoint hook

08:20And it has a nice great hook there to start with a lesson and explains why it works

08:25I've got the curiosity gap hook

08:26I've got the story case study hook

08:29I've got the shocking stat fact hook

08:32And number five is the question challenge hook

08:34So my skill that I created was for basically creating really compelling hooks using a framework or a process that I wanted

08:46Anytime I want to use the skill, it is now available to me

08:48The cool part is of course is that I can create as many skills for whatever I want

08:53I can even sell my skills now

08:56Now I want you to think about that a little bit

08:58We have a position now where not only are we required to teach content or not only do we have to teach content, we can actually give skills to people, have them apply the skill in their situation and ask us questions back, which is fundamentally different than what you've been thinking about creating content

09:19I think we can create skills, sell the skills and help or guide people on the use of the skills that they have in their particular library

09:31Now, how do we actually create these? What are the things that make them tick? Is it really hard to create? No, not at all

09:36In fact, there's a real simple way to do it, and I'll show you how that is

09:40Now, if I go down to the bottom left again, we'll look where it has my settings

09:45I'm going to go to settings and capabilities

09:49You'll go and see that when I do that, we scroll down a bit and it says skills

09:54I can upload skills and I also have one here that is at the bottom which enabled and it's the skill creator

10:00Right? So, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to make sure I have the name of it

10:08And in this particular case, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back to my chat

10:15Make sure I go back to the chats

10:15We'll open up the one I was on

10:20So there's the hooks that we were created, we were looking at

10:21In this case, what I want to do is I want to say create a skill using Going to make sure I put that in my skill creator

10:43Um create uh create a skill using my skill creator skill uh to uh create emails on board any new students to my course

11:05So basically what I'm doing now is I'm just saying hey I want to create my own skill

11:10It's for writing emails and onboarding emails

11:12So what it's doing, please let me take a look at your to build a custom skill for the onboarding emails there

11:19It's looking at the instructions in the skill

11:23This is a skill that I just added, right? It's well, it was one that was there from Anthropic, but think of any skill that you want

11:30You can create one here

11:32And it's going to go through and it's actually going to go and do all of the work to create the files that are required

11:40And while that's working in the background, the thing that this does is it creates a zip file

11:43And if you have that zip file, all you need to do is drag the zip file, and I'll show you how to do this in a second, over to Claude when you do an upload, and you now have the skill

11:55So, this isn't a course you have to take to learn about doing it

12:00This is a skill that is easily implemented and assigned to your Claude account

12:07And anyone with that zip file now has the ability to do just that, add their own skill to their library

12:13Okay, that took a minute to do

12:15So, what I'm going to show you is now I've got my uh let's pull it up actually so we could see it

12:22Here I've actually got my skill that was created basically where I used my skill creator to create a skill for onboarding and in this case it's done

12:33So I've got my onboarding email kill skill creator

12:35It's complete and what's inside? So I've got the skill.md file which is the one with all the instructions and it's complete instructions for generating three, five or seven email onboarding sequences

12:45Has reference files that are only loaded when needing

12:50So, copywriting principles, subject line formulas, beginner psychology insights

12:54Remember, this is your framework, your process that you're putting into the skill, some example templates, and just say create five onboarding sequence using my for this audience

13:07Some examples, and we'll keep this one here

13:13I'm just going to copy it so that we have it

13:15Um, actually, we'll do this one as well

13:20This one's probably a little bit easier

13:21I don't want a big long one

13:21So, I'm going to use a prompt here in a second, but this is what we get

13:25All of the stuff and it's awesome

13:27So, so all we need to do now is I got my zip file

13:30I need to actually install my skill into Claude

13:34So, how do we do that? Well, I'm going to go take a look again at my Claude desktop app

13:38It can be the web app, but I'm in the desktop app

13:40If I look in the bottom left where it says James, my name and the pro plan, I'm going to go to settings

13:46Make sure I get it to click settings and then capabilities

13:50And I'm going to add a new capability by just scrolling a little bit

13:54Make sure we got the right one

13:54In the skill section, I'm going to click upload skill

13:58And in my case, I need to drag the zip file that was created and make sure that I upload my skill

14:03I'm just going to go over to my other screen here, grab my skill, and there it is

14:12And it's the student onboarding email creator

14:14and skill loaded successfully

14:18Now I have another skill that's available to me and anytime I want to use that I can

14:24So let's go see what happens because I have the student onboarding email creator

14:29You can see it's now enabled and I'm going to go and we'll just click this one

14:34I just want to make sure I'm using it here

14:40And let's go and try this chat

14:46Uh, I'm just going to say can you uh create on boarding emails for my new WordPress course

15:05So again, I'm putting the topic in and I'm letting it know which particular tool or skill I'm using

15:11and we'll put a period and I'm just going to hit enter

15:13Now, what should happen here again? It's going to look for the instructions from that particular skill

15:21There's it's reading the file, reading the onboard skill kit to find out what it should be doing

15:30And again, this is any skill

15:32I just happen to create one here

15:35You can create as many as you want

15:36And now, well, we've got it

15:38Uh onboarding, create it

15:38And there's the sequence

15:41The emails are all done

15:43Email body, subject lines, all sorts of stuff that is there, including the links, and it's going to go through and do this

15:50Now, this is um this is a fundamental change on how we actually think about getting things done when it comes to using these tools

15:58I've been talking about having automations and agents and avatars coming, specifically the agents and the avatars in 2026

16:06I think this is the first start to it because when you think about it, you have a library of skill skills

16:12Think of it as a library of agents

16:15Those agents following your standard operating procedures, the skill sets or bundles that you've created so that you know when you ask for that particular skill to be used, you know exactly what it is that you're going to get coming out of it

16:31This is a real cool change and it makes you think about how can I take advantage of this when I'm the teacher and or the course creator, but also how can I monetize it because skills can now be sold and that's what I'm going to show you in the next video

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