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Claude skill · Learning and reasoning · Anthropic

Academy guide skill for Claude

Recommends a matching Claude Academy course, tutorial or use case at the end of answers about learning to use Claude.

Command
/academy-guide
Licence
Apache-2.0, copying allowed with attribution
Folder
2 files, 19 KB
Runs code
No scripts

Overview

What it does

When someone asks how to use Claude or a Claude product, Claude answers first and then, only if there’s a strong match, suggests a course, tutorial or use case from Anthropic’s learning site. The skill holds no course list of its own: when a recommendation fits, it fetches the live Academy catalogue once per conversation and suggests at most two items from it.

Its rules are the interesting part: answer the question first, recommend only when the person is trying to learn rather than mid-task, and never invent a course that isn’t in the catalogue.

Triggers

When Claude uses it

  • Questions like “how do I…”, “getting started with…” or “teach me…” about Claude features such as projects, artifacts, skills or MCP.
  • Requests for training or onboarding material for a team or class.
Its description, which Claude matches against
Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub. Trigger on: "how do I", "how can I", "getting started with", "what can Claude do", "teach me", "learn to use"; questions about artifacts, projects, skills, plugins, connectors, MCP; requests about rolling Claude out to a team, class, or organization; and any ask for training materials, onboarding content, or learning resources. Use it when the user is learning how to use a feature or product — not when they are mid-task and just want the task done. This skill composes with other skills: after consulting product documentation to answer how a Claude feature works, also check here for a matching course or tutorial — a docs-grounded answer and an Academy recommendation belong together. Only recommend on a strong match; never invent Academy content.

What it needs

  • Nothing to install, but it needs web access to fetch the Academy catalogue. Without it, or if the file is stale, it points only to the Academy’s product hubs or resource library.

Install

How to install it

Claude Code

Plugin (type in Claude Code)
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install academy-guide@anthropic-agent-skills

The academy-guide plugin installs this skill only. Its skills are then namespaced, such as /academy-guide:academy-guide.

Or copy the folder (shell)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r skills/skills/academy-guide ~/.claude/skills/

That makes it a personal skill, available as /academy-guide in all your projects. Copy it into .claude/skills/ in a repository instead to share it with your team.

claude.ai and the Claude API

Zip the skill folder, then in claude.ai open Customize > Skills, choose + and Create skill, then Upload a skill. Code execution must be turned on.

Upload with the Python SDK
from anthropic import Anthropic
from anthropic.lib import files_from_dir

client = Anthropic()
skill = client.skills.create(files=files_from_dir("academy-guide"))
print(skill.id)  # use as a custom skill_id with the code execution tool

Checks

SKILL.md validator results

Its SKILL.md (147 lines) run through our SKILL.md validator, with the folder’s file list, for both targets. These check the file’s format, not whether the skill works well.

Claude Code

0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 tips

claude.ai and the API

0 errors, 0 warnings, 1 tip

  • tipThe Claude Help Center’s upload guide gives a 200-character description limit for claude.ai, though the platform docs say 1,024. Keep it under 200 if you’ll upload it there.

Folder

What’s in the folder

  • LICENSE.txt11 KB
  • SKILL.md7.6 KB

SKILL.md sections

  1. Claude Academy guide
  2. Purpose
  3. Rules
  4. The catalog

Source

Licence and source

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