Dr. Violet Howard shows how CloudSkills/Claude Code now makes it ten times easier to build skills, which are text-based prompts that guide AI to do specific tasks. She walks through existing skills like Internal Comms and Idea Mining, then live-builds a new one from plain-text instructions to show how simple the process has become.
CloudSkills just got 10 times easier to build and stronger to use. So in today's video, I'm going to explain exactly why that is, and then I'm going to live build a completely new skill right here in front of you guys. So real quick, what is a skill? It's basically just a recipe so that when you ask your agent to make you, for example, a LinkedIn post, it will read the recipe and it will get it right every single time. And when I say recipes, I literally just mean text. It's just text instructions. It's like a prompt. So if I go to Customize and I go to Skills and I click on, let's say, for example, the Internal Comms skill, This says a set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communication using the format that my company likes to use. And you can see this is the skill itself. It is literally just text that you could read, that an intern could read, anybody could read and understand what's going on in the skill. And if you're using them in Cloud Code, you can see I've got a ton of skills here. So for example, let's look at my idea mining skill. This is the markdown file that explains to the agent what this skill actually does. And once again, it's all just text.
