For people new to Claude skills
What’s a Claude skill, exactly?
A short explainer for people who use Claude to get work done — but don’t think of themselves as developers.
In one sentence
A skill is Claude with a specific job to do.
When you talk to Claude in the regular app, you give it a fresh instruction every time. A skill is a small pre-packaged program that bundles the instructions, the examples, the workflow — everything Claude needs to do the same job consistently, every time.
Think of it like the difference between explaining a recipe out loud each time you want soup, and clicking “soup” on a menu.
Setup
How you install one.
Buy
Buy the skill on PromptBase or Agensi. You get a .skill file.
Open Claude
Open the Claude desktop app or web app — any paid plan works.
Install the skill
Drop the .skill file into your Skills library. ~10 seconds.
Run it on your work
Invoke the skill by name. The skill knows what to ask.
In context
Where a skill sits.
You
With your work in hand
StrategistKit skill
Pre-packaged instructions, examples, workflow
Output
Listings, briefs, drafts — same shape every time
The skill sits between you and Claude. You give it the work; it gives you back the output. No prompts to remember, no edge cases to handle yourself.
Requirements
What you need to use a StrategistKit skill.
Claude Pro, Team, or Enterprise
Any paid Claude plan supports custom skills. The free tier doesn’t.
Claude desktop app or web
Skills run in the official Claude app on Mac, Windows, or web.
Your own work
Skills work on your real listings, briefs, drafts — not synthetic samples.
No coding required
Drop the .skill file in. That’s the entire install process.
Try one
Start with a free skill.
The fastest way to understand what a skill does is to install one. Pick one of ten curated starter skills — we’ll send it to your inbox.