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Key takeaways

• Anthropic Skills was released in October. 
• With the feature, Claude can be taught to do repeatable tasks. 
• Updates include new partners, a new open standard, and more.

Anthropic has distinguished itself from competitors by staying laser-focused on its enterprise customers with offerings catered to make working professionals' lives easier. The Skills feature, launched in October, aimed to do just that, and now it has received an upgrade, making it easier for organizations to take advantage. 

With the Skills feature, users can provide Claude with a set of instructions, including resources like brand guidelines, so that the chatbot can reference them when performing specialized tasks autonomously. Since launching, the company has incorporated feedback and is now incorporating that into this new wave of updates, including enhanced collaboration. 

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Perhaps the biggest announcement is that Anthropic is launching its Agent Skills specification as an open standard. Similar to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard launched by Anthropic for connecting AI assistants and agents to data systems seamlessly and securely, the Agent Skills open standard makes skills easier to share and deploy to everyone. 

In the same spirit of increased collaboration, Skills created can now be managed centrally, allowing Team and Enterprise administrators to distribute skills more easily and control whether they are available by default or opt-in for users. Ideally, this allows employees in an organization to access all the necessary skills in one place, enabling new collaboration opportunities, while also giving administrators more control. 

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Other simpler updates include easier access to Skills, with it now residing in the Tools sidebar, which Anthropic described as "quick-create flow-just describe what you want, and Claude builds it." Lastly, it includes a partner skills directory, which serves as a hub of pre-built skills built by companies such as Canva, Notion, Figma, Zapier, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Stripe, and more. Ultimately, this should help teams identify and develop skills. 

To help conceptualize the feature's value, Anthropic provided examples of how it is being used by companies. These include applying brand style guidelines, creating org email templates, and task creation that follows team conventions, such as creating tasks in Asana, Jira, and other tools. For individual workflows, some examples include creating personal skills for PDF manipulation, such as converting formats, and prototype deployment, such as creating Slack bots. 

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