Wednesday, July 22 · 2:30 PM UTC
Claude Skills and Plugins
In this live session, Tim Cakir breaks down Claude Skills and Plugins, and how they turn your best prompts into reusable tools your whole team can run. We cover: • What Claude Skills are: folders that combine instructions, templates, and scripts so Claude produces consistent, on-brand output every time • How progressive disclosure works: Claude loads only what it needs, keeping skills reliable even as you add more • What Plugins are: shareable bundles of skills, MCP servers, slash commands, and subagents you can install in one step • How to create your own skill without heavy coding, and how to share it across a team through a plugin marketplace Live demo highlights: • Building an "AI Operator brand" skill from scratch • Using the skill creator to scaffold a new skill • Installing a plugin from a marketplace and running its commands • Showing how a teammate installs the same skill and gets identical results Main takeaways: • Skills solve inconsistent AI output by combining instructions with deterministic scripts. • Keep skills small and single purpose so they stay reliable and easy to find. • Plugins package multiple capabilities into one install, so value spreads across your team. • Stop re-explaining yourself to AI. Package it once, reuse it forever.
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