Build Your First Skill

Write a working Claude skill from scratch in three lessons. Take home a weekly retrospective skill you actually use.

3 lessons beginner

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what you'll build

what you walk away with.

01 A real Claude skill with name, description, body, and a references file.
02 A weekly-retro skill installed in your own Cowork that you can use forever.
03 An intuition for collaborating with Claude as the director, not just the typist.

curriculum

3 lessons.

01 SKILL.md frontmatter
02 The skill body
03 Progressive disclosure

prerequisites

what you need before you start.

Claude Cowork: The agentic tab inside Claude Desktop. No terminal experience required beyond installing the app once.
Three short lessons: You can stop and resume any time — the walker tracks where you are.

start

how to start.

Once Claude Code is set up, tell it “set up the skill authoring workshop” and it clones the project and queues the first lesson.

New here? The getting-started guide walks you through installing the lwc CLI and the Claude Code plugin once — everything you need before that line works.