For niche tasks, leverage an AI model with deep domain knowledge (like Claude for its own 'Skills' feature) to create highly specific prompts. Then, feed these optimized prompts into a powerful, generalist coding assistant (like Google's) to achieve a more accurate and robust final product.

The paradigm is shifting from using AI as a general chatbot to building a team of 'digital employees.' Claude Skills allow users to encapsulate a specific, repeatable workflow—like drafting a newsletter from tweets—into a tool that can be executed on demand, creating a specialized agent for that job.

Users can now upload instructional files to teach Claude AI specific abilities. This allows the AI to perform complex, branded tasks like creating presentations or designing posters according to a company's unique style guide, effectively turning it into a personalized expert assistant.

Beyond using pre-made skills, users can simply prompt Claude to create a new skill for itself. The AI understands the required format and can generate the instructional text for a new capability, such as crafting marketing hooks that create FOMO. This democratizes the process of AI customization.

The process of building AI tools is becoming automated. Claude features a 'Skill Creator,' a skill that builds other skills from natural language prompts. This meta-capability allows users to generate custom AI workflows without writing code, essentially asking the AI to build the exact tool they need for a task.

Instead of guessing which skills to create, describe your business to Claude and ask it to recommend the 10 most valuable, custom skills you should build. This leverages the AI's understanding to bootstrap your own AI-powered workflow.

Unlike Claude Projects where the LLM decides how to use tools, Skills execute predefined scripts. This gives users precise control over data analysis and repeatable tasks, ensuring consistent, accurate results and overcoming the common issue of non-deterministic AI outputs.

You don't need a special command like 'invoke skill' to activate a Claude Skill. The AI agent automatically detects when a skill is relevant based on the context of the conversation. For example, simply pasting a changelog can trigger a 'changelog-to-newsletter' skill without any other instruction.

Unlike Claude Projects or OpenAI's Custom GPTs which apply a general context to all chats, Claude Skills are task-specific instruction sets that can be dynamically called upon within any conversation. This allows for reusable, on-demand workflows without being locked into a specific project's context.