as Claude After launching Skills, they instantly became a hit online, with various kinds of Skills appearing one after another, and more and more… AI Tools have also started supporting Skills. Many people must be wondering what this actually is and how it can enhance AI capabilities. Even those who already know how to use it want to dive deeper into Skills applications.
Anthropic recently launched a free course called “Agent Skills with Anthropic” focused on Skills. In addition to explaining basic concepts, it walks you through the folder structure step by step, how to write SKILL.md, and practical sections—making it a worthwhile course for anyone looking to strengthen their Skills proficiency.
Agent Skills with Anthropic: A Free Course from Basics to Real-World Application
“Agent Skills with Anthropic” is an introductory short course offered by DeepLearning.AI in partnership with Anthropic, taught by Elie Schoppik, Anthropic’s Technical Training Lead. It teaches you how to build reusable Skills modules for AI Agents, allowing a general-purpose AI to quickly switch roles as a research assistant, data analyst, or code reviewer when needed.
The course starts with the fundamental concepts of Skills, explaining the folder structure and how to write SKILL.md files, and helps you understand the differences between Skills and tools, MCP, and subagents.
The second half will transition into hands-on practice, demonstrating how to load Skills across different environments, including API integration, code generation, and testing workflows—plus building a research agent capable of automatically collecting open-source project information and producing learning guides.
Course Highlights
- Getting Started with Skills Architecture: Learn how to package common workflows into reusable skills—write once, use everywhere.
- Practice-oriented approach: from marketing analysis and data characteristic testing to question generation, all demonstrated with real-world scenarios.
- Multi-Environment Integration: Real-World Applications Across Web Interfaces, APIs, Programming Tools, and Agent SDKs
- Modular Agent Design: Building Intelligent Systems with Clear Division of Labor through MCP and Sub-Agents
- Ideal for AI Builder: Perfect for engineers and creators looking to enhance Agent stability and professionalism.
Go to Agent Skills with Anthropic Course
Click the link above to access “Agent Skills with Anthropic.” You can start by watching the introduction video, and scroll down for detailed course information. There are 10 video lessons with a total duration of 2 hours and 19 minutes.
The following image shows the complete course title, including a basic introduction to Skills, why to use them, how they differ from Tools and MCP, how to customize Skills, how to use them in the Claude API or Claude Code, and more.
Click Enroll Now and log into your account (register for free if you don’t have one), and you can start taking the course:
The video provides English subtitles. If you’re using a computer, you can install the “Immersive Translate” extension, which offers instant Chinese subtitle translations:
As shown in the image below, instant Chinese translations appear below the English subtitles, so you don’t have to worry about not understanding:
English transcripts are also available:
Video courses are all free, but answering the final questions is limited to paid members:
Source: KOCPC Chinese