Claude Skills: Build Your First AI Assistant (Never Repeat Prompts Again)
Summary
This video teaches educators how to use Claude's 'Skills' feature to build custom AI assistants that remember specific workflows, tones, and formats. This allows for automation of repetitive tasks and consistent AI interactions, which is highly useful for educators in generating lesson plans, feedback, or administrative content efficiently. It helps teachers streamline their use of AI by not having to re-prompt for specific processes every time.
Description
How to use Claude Skills. Every time you start a new AI chat, it forgets everything -- your tone, your format, your whole workflow. Claude Skills fix that by letting you teach Claude your exact process once so it follows it every time. In this video, I'll show you how to find, build, and use skills on both claude.ai and Claude Co-work, step by step with real examples you can try today. This video covers everything you need to know about Claude Skills, from what they are and how they work to building your own from scratch. You'll see how to use the built-in Skill Creator to generate skills through a simple conversation, how to test and refine them, and the difference between capability skills and workflow skills. Then we move into Claude Co-work on the desktop app, where skills get even more powerful because Claude can access your local files. I walk through two full builds -- a content repurposer that turns YouTube subtitle files into blog posts, Twitter threads, and newsletters, and a pricing reply skill that reads your rate sheet PDF and drafts professional client responses. We also connect Gmail so Claude can read emails and draft replies directly from your inbox. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:11 What is a skill 2:40 Using skills on the web 4:12 Building a skill with the Skill Creator 7:22 Testing your new skill 8:26 Editing and refining skills 10:19 Capability skills vs workflow skills 11:24 Moving to Claude Co-work 12:44 Building a content repurposer skill 17:03 Automating with scheduled tasks 22:02 Building a pricing reply skill 26:03 Connecting Gmail to Claude 28:24 Final thoughts and next steps Claude Co-work Beginner's Guide: https://youtu.be/vv09DHej6gg Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@TeachersTech?sub_confirmation=1 Website: https://www.teachers.tech Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teacherstechlab LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teacherstech
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