What are Skills?	Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads dynamically to improve performance on specialized tasks.
How do Anthropic Skills differ from Custom Skills?	Anthropic Skills are created and maintained by Anthropic for document creation capabilities, while Custom Skills are ones you or your organization create for specialized workflows and domain-specific tasks.
What permissions are required to enable Skills?	To use Skills, Code execution and file creation must be enabled in the settings since Skills require Claude's secure sandboxed computing environment to function.
How does Claude automatically invoke a Skill?	When you give Claude a task that matches a Skill's purpose, it will automatically invoke the relevant Skill to perform the task.
What is the easiest way to create a custom Skill?	The easiest way to create a custom Skill is through conversation with Claude itself. You don't need to write code or manually create files—Claude handles the technical structure for you.
How do Skills and Projects complement each other?	A Skill can reference knowledge stored in a Project, while a Project provides the what (information) and a Skill provides the how (process). This allows Claude to apply consistent methodology using Skills while drawing on long-term context and reference materials from Projects.