Introduction to Agent Skills

Anthropic Academy intermediate self-paced free certificate ~3 hours
Prerequisites: Building with the Claude API course
agents skills

Learn to build structured, reusable capabilities for Claude-based agents using the Agent Skills framework. Covers skill design, packaging, tool orchestration, and deployment patterns. This is Anthropic’s bridge between basic API usage and production agent development — take it after the Claude API course and before diving into the Agent SDK Deep Dive learning path.