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DeepLearning.AI and Anthropic Launch Free Agent Skills Course

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DeepLearning.AI and Anthropic released Agent Skills with Anthropic, a free 2-hour course that teaches how to create, compose, and deploy agent skills. You'll build custom skills for code generation and review, data analysis, and research workflows, plus use Anthropic's pre-built skills for Excel and PowerPoint. The course is taught by Elie Schoppik, Anthropic's Head of Technical Education.

Skills are reusable instruction folders that turn general-purpose agents into specialists on demand - instead of repeating the same workflow instructions, you package them once and any compatible agent picks them up. The course also covers how skills compare to tools, MCP, and subagents, and how to combine all four.

The 10-lesson course walks through skills across Claude.ai, Claude Code, the Claude API, and the Claude Agent SDK, with hands-on projects including building a research agent that generates learning guides from documentation.

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Important new course: Agent Skills with Anthropic, built with @AnthropicAI and taught by @eschoppik! Skills are constructed as folders of instructions that equip agents with on-demand knowledge and workflows. This short course teaches you how to create them following best practices. Because skills follow an open standard format, you can build them once and deploy across any skills-compatible agent, like Claude Code. What you'll learn: - Create custom skills for code generation and review, data analysis, and research - Build complex workflows using Anthropic's pre-built skills (Excel, PowerPoint, skill creation) and custom skills - Combine skills with MCP and subagents to create agentic systems with specialized knowledge - Deploy the same skills across https://t.co/Ru4OXv4saV, Claude Code, the Claude API, and the Claude Agent SDK Join and learn to equip agents with the specialized knowledge they need for reliable, repeatable workflows. https://t.co/3hq83c3q0U

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