Intro · 1:02
Why skills matter
Agents in Claude Code, Cowork and Codex are powerful, but reliable automation depends on great skills.
- Agents are getting more powerful every day.
- Reliable automation depends on good skills.
- Skills are easy to create, so most are low quality.
| Easy | Hard |
|---|---|
| Creating a skill | Making it reliable |
| Downloading skills | Choosing good ones |
| One-line prompts | Well-structured instructions |
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Why are many skills poor?
They're built with one-line prompts.
What makes automation reliable?
Well-built skills.
0:00 So, in this video, I'll show you why most skills don't work, walk you through a simple five-step framework to building good skills that actually automate work reliably, show you all the best practices to follow that separate great skills from bad ones, and give away a skill that helps you build or optimize existing skills according to these best practices. Now, this five-step framework that I walk you through on building agent skills comes out of my own and my team's experience of building hundreds of skills ourselves.
0:45 We failed with many of them, but have also been able to automate many of our business processes eventually. We've also been looking at what worked and what didn't work across business owners and professionals in my AI accelerator, and we've looked into all best practices from Anthropic and other trusted resources. Now, this framework can both be used to build new ones or to optimize existing ones. But before
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