Personal: ~/.claude/skills
Available in every project on your machine. Good for your own routines: commit conventions, review checklists, preferred report formats.
Claude Code Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that extend what Claude Code can do. When a task matches a Skill's description, Claude Code loads that Skill and follows its playbook instead of improvising. Claude Code Skills follow the SKILL.md format of the Agent Skills open standard, and Claude Code adds its own extensions on top.
Each Skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file. A minimal Skill is just frontmatter plus instructions:
my-skill/ ├── SKILL.md # required: frontmatter + instructions ├── scripts/ # optional: deterministic helpers ├── references/ # optional: docs Claude may consult └── assets/ # optional: templates and files
Loading is progressive. Claude Code sees only each Skill's metadata at startup, expands the full SKILL.md when the Skill seems relevant, and opens bundled files on demand. You can install many Skills without paying their context cost up front.
Two scopes cover most workflows:
Available in every project on your machine. Good for your own routines: commit conventions, review checklists, preferred report formats.
Checked into the repository and shared with everyone who clones it. Good for team knowledge: deploy runbooks, coding standards, domain playbooks.
Claude Code invokes a matching Skill on its own, and you can also call one explicitly with /skill-name in the prompt.
Project Skills spread easily among developers: they ride along with the git repository. But every recipient still needs Claude Code, a terminal, and the habit of working in repos. That excludes most clients, stakeholders, and readers who simply want the answers inside your Skill.
A browser version removes that barrier. Skill2Web converts a public Skill into a web app: a focused chat page whose answers cite the Skill's own material, shareable as a URL with nothing to install. The conversion reads files only and never executes repository scripts.
Turn your Claude Skill into a web app