Field notes from the skill economy
Guides, playbooks, and honest write-ups on buying and selling Claude Skills & Agents — pricing, packaging, discovery, and the workflows people actually use.
Tutorials
6 postsHow to Test Your Claude Skill Before You List It
Most one-star reviews come from skills that only ever ran on the author's clean input. Here's how to break your own skill before a buyer does.
Claude Code or Cowork: Where Should You Run Your Skills?
You bought a Claude skill. Now you need somewhere to run it. The choice between Claude Code and Cowork comes down to who you are and the kind of work you do — here's how to pick.
How to Install a Claude Skill in Cowork (Step by Step)
You bought a skill and downloaded a .skill file. Here's the full walkthrough from that file to a working skill in Cowork — plus the two stuck-points that trip up almost everyone.
Building Your First Claude Agent: A Beginner's Guide
Most first agents fail because they start with the tools. Start with the job instead: one clear goal, one stop condition, and the read-act-check loop that does the rest.
The Anatomy of a Great SKILL.md File
Most skills don't fail because the logic is wrong. They fail because Claude never decides to run them. Here's how to write a SKILL.md that fires at the right moment and behaves once it does.
Code Review on Autopilot: Building a Claude Agent That Reviews Pull Requests
Build an agent that reads the diff, runs the tests, forms an opinion, and leaves comments worth reading — while the human keeps a firm grip on the merge button.