How to add skills in Claude

Claude adds a SKILL.md to its toolkit and uses it when relevant, or you invoke it with /skill-name. Folders below come from Claude’s skills doc only.

Start from Claude’s skills doc.

Read Extend Claude with skills. Create a directory and save SKILL.md. Test by asking in chat or typing the slash command.

Personal versus project.

  • Personal (all projects): ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
  • Project (this repo): .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
  • Plugin: the plugin’s skills/ folder, when that plugin is enabled

Personal overrides project when names clash (enterprise overrides personal). Invoke with /skill-name — for personal and project skills the command comes from the directory name. List skills with /skills.

Add a Tiny Design Shop skill.

Download from a companion page or install-once, then place the folder under personal or project skills. Do not put shop files in the reserved synced folder name — Claude uses that for claude.ai sync.

Confirm and remove.

Run /skills. To remove a personal or project skill, delete that directory — Claude’s doc: remove a skill by deleting ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ or .claude/skills/<name>/. Synced claude.ai skills return if still enabled on the account.