About This Course

Why I built Introduction to Agent Skills, and who it's for.

Hi, I'm Edwin Ashdown

I build AI-powered tools and courses that help developers get more leverage from Claude Code. You might know my other projects:

TranscriptIQ

The session analyser for AI-assisted development. Upload a Claude Code transcript and get scored across 8 fluency dimensions — with actionable recommendations.

AI IQ

A VSCode extension that monitors your Claude Code sessions in real-time — live health scores, anti-pattern alerts, and per-model cost tracking, right inside your editor.

Why I Built This Course

Every Claude Code user hits the same wall: you end up typing the same instructions into every session. "Write tests like this." "Review PRs this way." "Use these commit conventions." It's tedious, it's inconsistent, and across a team it's impossible to keep everyone aligned.

Skills solve exactly that problem — but only if you know how to write them well. A badly-described skill never triggers. A skill with the wrong tool permissions gets blocked. A skill that duplicates CLAUDE.md just adds noise.

This course shows you how to build Skills that actually activate, compose cleanly with subagents and hooks, and scale across a team through Git, plugins, and enterprise settings.

What's Inside

Three modules, eleven lessons, two hands-on exercises, and a capstone project where you design a complete team skills workflow:

Module 1 — Understanding Skills: What Skills are, where they live, and how they compare to CLAUDE.md, subagents, hooks, and MCP servers.
Module 2 — Building Skills: Create your first skill, configure tool restrictions and multi-file structures, and build a skill for your own workflow.
Module 3 — Deploying and Maintaining Skills: Share skills across teams, wire them into subagents, troubleshoot systematically, and design a complete team workflow.

Get in Touch

Questions, feedback, or just want to say hi — I'd love to hear from you.

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