why it is useful to have them, how to create them and how to use them

Let’s explain to you What are they and why is it useful to have .md files with Skills? of Claude. The artificial intelligence Anthropic has this system of skills that can be like the GPTs either Gems of ChatGPT either Geminibut they work in a different way.

Claude will search through his skills every time you write him a prompt, and that’s why it’s useful to have some external ones instead of within the Skills system so you can only use them when you want. We are going to explain everything so that you understand it, and along the way we will tell you the best way to do them without having to use any text editing program.

Why it is useful to have external skills

When you decide to create a Claude’s Skillsthis is saved in the internal memory of the AI, which is normal. But the peculiarity of this system compared to similar ones from other AI chatbots is that every time you write a prompt, Claude will first look at the names and descriptions of all the Skills that you have created in case you can use any, and then, if it understands that what you have requested corresponds to what they do, then it automatically launches them.

This can make you don’t have full control of when a skill is used that you have created, and that they are launched without you wanting it. And if you are creating many of them for different tasks, then it can be a problem.

The way to avoid this is create very precise names and descriptions for the skills, so that Claude can understand what they are specifically for and not throw them in other contexts. If they are generic descriptions and names, then it might use them unintentionally with similar actions you ask of it.

But the method to have better control and have a Skill that can only be used when you want explicitly is to use an external one. Come on, have .md files with these Skillsand attach it only when you explicitly want to use them.

Create a skill in a .md file

When we explain how to convert GPTs and Gems in Skillswhat we told you was to go into the folder where they are, and copy the name, description and instructions into a Skill. These are also the three key fields when you go to create a Claude Skill from scratch.

To do this, you just have to use a text editor in which you explain everything step by step. You can use the same structure, with a name, description and then instructions, or you can go further and expand with other formats. It has to be in Markdown format.

You can also create the files with Claude

But the most effective way to do it is to ask Claude to create a .md file with a Skill. Here, you can use a prompt structure like this to do it:

I want you to generate a .md file with a skill created for Claude.

These are the skill data:

Name: (Name)

Description: (Description)

Instructions: (Detailed Skill Instructions)

I want you, based on this data, to generate the skill so that it works as best as possible with Claude, and then make a .md file to download it.

Here, just by filling in the name, description and instructions you can have a Skill made by Claude, and in fact, when finished you will have a .md file that you will only have to download and save it wherever you want.

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