Agent skills guides and tutorials
Practical, step-by-step instructions with the exact commands and file paths. If you're starting from nothing, the install guide covers all 16 supported agents; if you're writing your own skill, start with the authoring guide.
Build a Framer Landing Page with Claude: A Practical Workflow
Use Claude to plan and critique your landing page, then build it in Framer. Includes a reusable brief, responsive checks and an SEO launch checklist.
October 4, 2026
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ant apply: Managing Claude API Resources as Code
ant apply, added in ant CLI 1.30.0, creates and updates Claude API agents, environments, skills and deployments from files in your repository, with a lockfile and a plan you approve.
September 6, 2026
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Claude Code's Diff Panel: Watching Changes as Claude Works
Claude Code's diff panel, added in v2.1.260, opens beside the conversation in fullscreen mode and updates live as Claude edits files, with a fallback to the older diff viewer.
September 6, 2026
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Diagnosing Claude Code's Managed Settings: Two Lines to Check
Claude Code reports whether your organisation's policy loaded through two lines, Organization policy and Managed settings (remote). Here is what each means and how to fix a failed load.
September 6, 2026
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Claude Code's --append-subagent-system-prompt-file Flag
A new headless-mode flag reads the text appended to every subagent's system prompt from a file instead of the command line, for prompts too large to pass as an argument.
September 5, 2026
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Claude Code's bashOutputMaxChars and taskOutputMaxChars Settings
Two new Claude Code settings raise how much command and background-task output reaches Claude inline before it gets saved to a file, up to 128K characters.
September 5, 2026
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Claude Code's /skill-doctor Command Explained
/skill-doctor shows which loaded skills go unused and what they cost in context, giving you a direct way to prune a bloated skill listing without guessing.
September 5, 2026
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Claude Code's --permission-prompts none Flag Explained
Claude Code's --permission-prompts none flag denies anything that would need a person to answer, instead of hanging a scheduled or unattended run waiting for input that never comes.
September 4, 2026
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Claude Code's timeFormat and timeZone Settings Explained
Claude Code's timeFormat and timeZone settings control how times are written across the interface: 12-hour, 24-hour, 24-hour UTC, a custom strftime pattern, or a specific IANA time zone.
September 4, 2026
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How to Install, Manage and Reload Claude Code Plugins
How Claude Code's own plugin system works: marketplaces, installing plugins that bundle skills, agents and MCP servers, and applying changes with /reload-plugins without restarting.
September 4, 2026
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Claude Code's blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories Setting
Claude Code now prompts once in auto mode before its first file read outside your working directories, and permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories lets you turn that into a standing block.
September 3, 2026
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Claude Code's managedMcpServers Setting Explained
Claude Code's new managedMcpServers managed setting lets organizations push HTTP and SSE MCP servers to every user through ordinary managed settings, no MDM-deployed file required.
September 3, 2026
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CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE Explained
Claude Code's CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE environment variable pins every subagent, teammate and workflow agent to one model, overriding per-spawn requests and agent-definition overrides.
September 3, 2026
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The Admin API in the ant CLI and Claude SDKs
The Admin API landed in the ant CLI and seven language SDKs on 26 August 2026 under client.beta.organization. Here's what it covers, what still needs curl, and how to authenticate it.
September 2, 2026
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Claude Custom Tools: The Same Rule as Skill Descriptions
Anthropic's own guidance for defining custom tools on the Claude API and Claude Managed Agents comes down to four rules, and the first one is the same lever that makes or breaks an agent skill.
September 2, 2026
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Codex CLI Hooks: The Full Timeline From 0.148.0 to 0.152.0
Codex CLI's hooks system gained async execution, MCP tool access, an Interrupt event, tool-result rewriting and per-tool output limits across five releases. Here's every change in order.
September 2, 2026
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Claude Code's /claude-api cost-optimize Command
The claude-api skill's cost-optimize subcommand profiles a project's Claude API spend and proposes savings, caching first, one measured change at a time, instead of generic advice.
September 1, 2026
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Restricting Claude Managed Agents' Web Search and Web Fetch
Claude Managed Agents' web_search and web_fetch tools now accept allowed_domains and blocked_domains, each with its own list. Here's the exact config shape and validation rules.
September 1, 2026
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Claude Code's modelPicker Setting: Curating the /model Picker
modelPicker lets you replace or extend Claude Code's built-in /model picker with your own ordered, labelled list of models, ideal for teams standardising on specific Bedrock or Vertex deployments.
August 31, 2026
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PreModelSwitch and PostModelSwitch: Claude Code's New Hooks
Claude Code v2.1.251 added PreModelSwitch and PostModelSwitch hook events for blocking, confirming, or reacting to a model switch. How they fire, what they receive, and how blocking actually works.
August 30, 2026
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The Admin API's Rate Limits and Workload Identity Federation
How to read your organization's Claude API rate limits programmatically, and how workload identity federation endpoints let a CI workload manage its own config without a long-lived key.
August 29, 2026
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Claude Code's experimental.cacheTtl Frontmatter Field
How the experimental.cacheTtl field in subagent frontmatter sets a per-agent prompt cache lifetime, where it sits in the precedence order, and when it actually changes anything.
August 29, 2026
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Claude Code's modelPricing Setting Explained
How the managed-only modelPricing setting makes /usage, the status line and telemetry report spend at your contracted rates instead of list price, without changing your bill.
August 29, 2026
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The Claude Admin API's User Management Endpoints
Members, invites, workspaces, RBAC groups and custom roles: what the Claude Admin API actually covers for managing an organization programmatically, and where Enterprise-only endpoints start.
August 28, 2026
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Claude Code's --restricted Flag Explained
Claude Code's new --restricted flag locks a session down for evaluation harnesses and shared machines: no shell tools, no WebFetch, no user or project settings, no bypass mode.
August 28, 2026
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Claude Code's Auto Mode Tab: Editing Classifier Rules from /permissions
Claude Code v2.1.246 added an Auto mode tab to /permissions so you can view and edit the classifier's allow, soft_deny, hard_deny and environment rules without opening a settings file.
August 27, 2026
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ant CLI Scripting and Automation
How to version-control Claude API resources as YAML with the ant CLI, chain commands with --transform, inspect errors, and call ant from inside Claude Code.
August 26, 2026
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Claude Code's promptCacheTtl Setting Explained
How Claude Code's promptCacheTtl and subagentPromptCacheTtl settings control the API's 5-minute and 1-hour cache lifetimes, who gets which default, and when to change it.
August 26, 2026
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Anthropic's ant CLI: The Command Line for the Claude Platform
ant is Anthropic's official command-line tool for the Claude API, covering install, authentication, the resource:action command pattern, and how it differs from curl and the SDKs.
August 25, 2026
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Running a Claude Managed Agent on a Schedule with Scheduled Deployments
How Scheduled Deployments run a Claude Managed Agent on a recurring cron schedule: creating one, budgets, run history, pausing, and the DST edge cases to watch for.
August 25, 2026
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Migrating to the Anthropic Python SDK 1.0
The anthropic Python SDK hit 1.0.0 on 20 August 2026, moving to httpx2 and dropping several long-deprecated APIs. Here is every breaking change and how to work through them.
August 24, 2026
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Claude Code's Fullscreen Mode: What It Changes
Fullscreen rendering removes flicker, keeps memory flat and adds mouse support in Claude Code. Here is how to turn it on, what breaks, and why Bedrock and Vertex only just got it.
August 24, 2026
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ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL: Setting Claude Code's Startup Model
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL sets which model a new Claude Code session opens on, without touching settings.json, but six other sources can override it. Here's the exact precedence.
August 22, 2026
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How to Customize Keyboard Shortcuts in Claude Code
Claude Code reads keyboard shortcuts from ~/.claude/keybindings.json, with contexts, chords, and unbinding, plus a separate keybindingFlavor setting for readline-style word editing.
August 22, 2026
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Claude Code Output Styles Explained, Including Concise
Output styles change how Claude Code communicates by rewriting its system prompt. Four built-in options now exist, including the new Concise style added 20 August 2026, plus how to write your own.
August 20, 2026
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Claude Code's skillOverrides Setting Explained
skillOverrides hides or restricts a skill from Claude Code settings instead of editing its SKILL.md, with four states from fully listed to completely hidden, written for you by the /skills menu.
August 20, 2026
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How to Test an Agent Skill Before You Ship It
Seeing a skill trigger only proves Claude found it, not that it did the right thing. Here's how to test both discovery and output quality before you publish a SKILL.md.
August 19, 2026
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Deploying a Self-Hosted Claude Code Runner to Production
The quickstart gets one runner talking to Anthropic. This guide covers what production actually needs: egress control, git credentials, Kubernetes and Compose recipes, and drain timing.
August 16, 2026
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How to Learn Claude Code from Scratch
A practical path through Claude Code for someone who has never opened a terminal AI agent before: install, first session, the commands worth memorising, and what to learn next.
August 16, 2026
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How to Configure Claude Code Auto Mode's Trusted Infrastructure
Auto mode's classifier only trusts your working repo by default. Here's how to use autoMode.environment to add your org's repos, buckets and services, and stop routine work from getting blocked.
August 15, 2026
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How to Self-Host Claude Code Runners
Claude Code's self-hosted environments run cloud sessions on your own infrastructure. Here's how to set up the runner, route a session to it, and what changes for skills.
August 14, 2026
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How to Install Agent Skills in Zed
How to install Agent Skills in the Zed code editor: the skills CLI, manual setup in .agents/skills, global versus project scope, worktree trust, and troubleshooting.
August 13, 2026
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How to Install Skills in Gemini CLI
How to install Agent Skills in Google Gemini CLI: the native gemini skills command, manual setup in ~/.gemini/skills, the consent prompt, and troubleshooting.
August 12, 2026
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How to Add Skills to Claude Cowork
How Agent Skills work in Claude Cowork, adding skill folders, the Team skill directory, Record a Skill, and how this GUI approach differs from Claude Code's filesystem model.
July 25, 2026
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How to Record a Skill in Claude Cowork
A full walkthrough of Record a Skill in Claude Cowork, where to find it, who has access, how the demonstration becomes a skill, sharing on Team, and privacy considerations.
July 23, 2026
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How to Install Agent Skills in Cline
How to install Agent Skills in Cline, the open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code, via .cline/skills, CLI install, manual setup, and VS Code-specific troubleshooting.
May 19, 2026
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How to Install Agent Skills in OpenCode
How to install Agent Skills in OpenCode, SST's open-source terminal agent, via the .opencode/skills directory, the CLI command, manual setup, and troubleshooting.
May 12, 2026
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How to Use Agent Skills with the Claude API
How to ship Agent Skills to production Claude API agents through container uploads and the code execution tool, no CLI install command exists for this platform.
May 5, 2026
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How to Install Agent Skills in GitHub Copilot
How to install Agent Skills in GitHub Copilot's agent mode using the .github/skills folder, the CLI command, manual setup, verification, scope, and fixes for common failures.
April 21, 2026
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How to Install Agent Skills in Windsurf
How to install Agent Skills in Windsurf's Cascade agent: the skills CLI, manual setup in .windsurf/skills, personal vs project scope, and troubleshooting.
April 7, 2026
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How to Install Skills in Google Antigravity
How to install Agent Skills in Google Antigravity: the skills CLI, manual setup in .agents/skills, the older .agent/skills path, scope, and troubleshooting.
March 17, 2026
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How to Install Agent Skills in Cursor
How to install Agent Skills in Cursor 2.4 and later: the skills CLI, manual setup in ~/.cursor/skills, personal vs project scope, and fixing skills that won't trigger.
March 3, 2026
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How to Install Skills in OpenAI Codex CLI
How to install Agent Skills in OpenAI Codex CLI, invoke them directly with $skill-name, choose personal vs project scope, and fix skills that won't load.
February 17, 2026
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How to Write Your Own Agent Skill
A step-by-step guide to writing your own agent skill, from folder structure to the description field, with a full worked example.
February 10, 2026
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How to Install Skills in Claude Desktop
How to install Agent Skills in the Claude desktop and web apps through Settings, without a terminal, upload steps, verification, scope limits, and troubleshooting.
February 3, 2026
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How to Install Skills in Claude Code
A complete walkthrough for installing Agent Skills in Claude Code: the skills CLI, manual installs, personal vs project scope, verification, and troubleshooting.
January 20, 2026
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How to Install Claude Skills: The Complete 2026 Guide
How to install and download Claude skills on any agent, the skills CLI, manual folder copying, GitHub installs, and the exact path for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and 14 more platforms.
January 27, 2025
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