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Claude Skills & Agents: Supercharge Your AI Workflow

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Claude Skills & Agents: Supercharge Your AI Workflow
Core concepts

Skills vs. Agents — What's the Difference?

Both mechanisms extend what Claude can do, but they operate at different levels of complexity and autonomy.

Skills

Skills are reusable prompt templates invoked with a slash command (e.g. /commit, /review-pr). They expand into full instructions at runtime, so you never have to retype the same context. Think of a skill as a macro: you define it once in a Markdown file, and Claude executes the exact behavior you designed every time you call it.

Agents

Agents are autonomous sub-processes that Claude can spawn to handle complex, multi-step tasks in parallel or in the background. Each agent type comes with a curated toolset (e.g. only read-only tools for an explorer, or full write access for a code generator). Agents are defined in YAML and can be triggered by Claude automatically or manually.

Step-by-step

How to Add a Skill

Skills live in your .claude/skills/ directory as Markdown files. Creating one takes under five minutes.

1

Create the skill file

Navigate to your project root and create a Markdown file inside .claude/skills/. The filename becomes the slash command name.

# Terminal mkdir -p .claude/skills touch .claude/skills/deploy.md
2

Write the skill prompt

Add a YAML frontmatter block with metadata, then write the full instructions Claude should follow when the skill is invoked.

--- name: deploy description: Run the full deployment checklist for this project user_invocable: true --- # Deploy checklist 1. Run all tests with `mvn test` 2. Build the production artifact 3. Create a git tag with the version 4. Push to the remote and open a merge request
3

Invoke the skill in Claude Code

Type /deploy in the Claude Code prompt. Claude expands the full skill definition and executes it.

# Claude Code prompt /deploy # Claude reads the skill and begins the checklist automatically
4

Pass arguments (optional)

Skills can accept free-form arguments that Claude incorporates into the prompt context at invocation time.

/deploy staging v2.4.1 # Claude receives "staging v2.4.1" as the args string
Step-by-step

How to Add an Agent

Agents are defined in YAML files inside .claude/agents/. They can be summoned by Claude autonomously or called explicitly.

1

Create the agent definition file

Each agent gets its own Markdown file with YAML frontmatter inside .claude/agents/.

mkdir -p .claude/agents touch .claude/agents/code-reviewer.md
2

Define tools, model, and instructions

The frontmatter specifies which tools the agent can use and any capability restrictions. The body is the agent's system prompt.

--- name: code-reviewer description: Reviews changed files for bugs, security issues, and style tools: [Read, Grep, Glob, Bash] --- You are a senior engineer performing a code review. Focus on: correctness, security (OWASP Top 10), performance, and code clarity. Be concise.
3

Let Claude invoke the agent — or call it yourself

Claude automatically routes tasks to suitable agents based on their description field. You can also ask Claude explicitly.

# Claude picks the agent automatically: "Review the diff on this branch for security issues" # Or name the agent directly: "Use the code-reviewer agent on src/auth/"
4

Run agents in parallel (advanced)

Claude can spawn multiple agents simultaneously — each working on an independent sub-task — then synthesize their results.

# Example: Claude spawns 3 agents in parallel "Audit the API layer for security, check test coverage, and review the DB migration — run them in parallel."
Use cases

Who Benefits from Skills & Agents?

Whether you're a solo developer or leading a large team, the extension system saves time and enforces consistency across every workflow.

Individual Developers

Automate your personal workflows — git commit messages, PR descriptions, test generation — so you focus on logic, not boilerplate.

Engineering Teams

Share skills across the whole team via a shared .claude/skills/ directory. Everyone follows the same process without any training.

Security & QA Engineers

Deploy a dedicated code-review agent that audits every diff for OWASP issues, dependency vulnerabilities, and anti-patterns automatically.

DevOps & Platform Teams

Wire deploy checklists, infrastructure audits, and incident runbooks into skills so the right steps are always followed under pressure.

Onboarding & Training

New team members invoke the /onboard skill to get guided through the codebase setup, standards, and first-PR process automatically.

Time-Sensitive Releases

Skills eliminate human error during releases. The deploy checklist, tagging, and MR creation happen the same way every single time.

Real-world examples

Skills & Agents in Action

Browse practical examples — click a tab to see how each one is set up and what it does.

/commit — Smart Commit Skill

Skill • User-invocable • Git workflow

What it does

Analyzes staged changes, infers the intent behind the diff, and creates a well-structured commit message following conventional commits. Includes co-authorship attribution and guards against committing secrets.

Defined in .claude/skills/commit.md
--- name: commit description: Create a conventional git commit for staged changes user_invocable: true --- Run `git diff --cached` to inspect staged changes. Draft a commit message following Conventional Commits. Never commit `.env` or credential files. End the message with: Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Benefits
  • Consistent commit history across the entire team
  • Security guard prevents accidental secret commits
  • Zero mental overhead — just stage and type /commit

code-reviewer — Autonomous Review Agent

Agent • Read-only tools • Security & quality

What it does

A specialized agent that reads the changed files on the current branch and produces a structured review covering correctness, security vulnerabilities, performance hotspots, and coding standards. It can run in the background while you keep working.

Defined in .claude/agents/code-reviewer.md
--- name: code-reviewer description: Reviews diffs for bugs, security, and style issues tools: [Read, Grep, Glob, Bash] --- You are a senior engineer reviewing a pull request. Check for: SQL injection, XSS, insecure deserialization, N+1 queries, missing input validation, and dead code. Output a Markdown report with Severity levels.
Benefits
  • Catches security issues before they reach production
  • Runs in the background — no context switching
  • Consistent review quality regardless of reviewer availability

jira-agent — Jira Task Manager Agent

Agent • External API tools • Project management

What it does

Handles all Jira interactions — reading ticket details, creating new tasks, updating ticket status, and linking merge requests to tickets. Claude invokes it automatically whenever Jira is mentioned in the conversation.

Defined in .claude/agents/jira-agent.md
--- name: jira-agent description: Handles all Jira operations including reading, creating, and updating tickets tools: [Bash, Read, WebFetch] --- You interact with Jira via the jira CLI. Always read the ticket before updating it. When linking an MR, add the URL to the ticket's "Development" field and post a comment.
Benefits
  • Jira stays up-to-date without manual effort
  • MRs are always linked to their tickets automatically
  • Team lead has real-time visibility from a single prompt

Explore — Codebase Explorer Agent

Agent • Read-only tools • Research & discovery

What it does

A fast, read-only agent specialized in finding files by pattern, searching code for symbols, and answering architectural questions about large codebases without polluting the main context window.

Defined in .claude/agents/explore.md
--- name: Explore description: Fast agent for exploring codebases — file search, code search, architecture questions tools: [Glob, Grep, Read, Bash] --- Search the codebase efficiently using Glob and Grep. Return concise, structured findings. Never edit files. Specify thoroughness: quick / medium / very-thorough.
Benefits
  • Explores large repos without filling main context
  • Read-only — zero risk of accidental edits
  • Runs in parallel with active coding work

/deploy — Deployment Checklist Skill

Skill • User-invocable • DevOps workflow

What it does

Runs the full pre-deployment checklist: tests, build artifact creation, git tagging, changelog update, and MR creation — in the exact same order every time, with no steps skipped under release pressure.

Defined in .claude/skills/deploy.md
--- name: deploy description: Full pre-deployment checklist for production releases user_invocable: true --- 1. Run `mvn test` — abort if any test fails. 2. Run `mvn package -DskipTests` to build the artifact. 3. Create an annotated git tag: `git tag -a vX.Y.Z`. 4. Update CHANGELOG.md with the release notes. 5. Push the tag and open a merge request to main.
Benefits
  • Zero release steps forgotten under deadline pressure
  • Tests are always run before deployment, enforced automatically
  • Any team member can trigger a correct deploy with one command
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