Claude Skills: How to use them, why they are important & what they are.
Skills are the fix for most of your problems using AI tools. And right now they're one of the most powerful and most underused features in the entire Claude ecosystem.
In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going deep on Claude Skills: the context engineering principle underneath them, the exact anatomy of a skill file, how to build your first one from scratch, how skills chain together into full workflows, and how they sit alongside MCPs and plugins.
Plus.....a real walkthrough of a developer who's built a four-skill chain that goes from rough idea all the way to a kanban board of…
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