Skills: The Complete Guide to Claude's Best Feature
Skills teach Claude repeatable workflows, load automatically when relevant, and only cost tokens when they're actually needed. Here's everything you need to know.
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Slash Commands Are Skills Now
As of January 2026, Claude Code merged slash commands into skills. Here's what changed and how to migrate.
Slash Commands: Consistent Automation That Still Lets You Riff
How I run multiple vibe projects in parallel without sacrificing quality or consistency.
Claude Code's Not-Obvious Plugin System
I'd been manually asking Claude to install MCPs and write skills. Then a friend mentioned /plugin and I realized there's a whole ecosystem I missed.
My First Claude Skill That Refused to Work
How I built a skill that manages my entire content pipeline - auto-updating the backlog, spotting scheduling gaps, and suggesting what to write next.