Quick Guide & Tips

💻   Accessing Utils File and Helper Functions

In each notebook on the top menu:

1:   Click on "File"

2:   Then, click on "Open"

You will be able to see all the notebook files for the lesson, including any helper functions used in the notebook on the left sidebar. See the following image for the steps above.

🔄   Reset User Workspace

If you need to reset your workspace to its original state, follow these quick steps:

1:   Access the Menu: Look for the three-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the notebook toolbar.

2:   Restore Original Version: Click on "Restore Original Version" from the dropdown menu.

For more detailed instructions, please visit our Reset Workspace Guide.

💻   Downloading Notebooks

In each notebook on the top menu:

1:   Click on "File"

2:   Then, click on "Download as"

3:   Then, click on "Notebook (.ipynb)"

💻   Uploading Your Files

After following the steps shown in the previous section ("File" => "Open"), then click on "Upload" button to upload your files.

📗   See Your Progress

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Additionally, your progress in each short course is displayed at the bottom-left corner of the learning page for each course (desktop view).

📱   Features to Use

🎞   Adjust Video Speed: Click on the gear icon (⚙) on the video and then from the Speed option, choose your desired video speed.

🗣   Captions (English and Spanish): Click on the gear icon (⚙) on the video and then from the Captions option, choose to see the captions either in English or Spanish.

🔅   Video Quality: If you do not have access to high-speed internet, click on the gear icon (⚙) on the video and then from Quality, choose the quality that works the best for your Internet speed.

🖥   Picture in Picture (PiP): This feature allows you to continue watching the video when you switch to another browser tab or window. Click on the small rectangle shape on the video to go to PiP mode.

√   Hide and Unhide Lesson Navigation Menu: If you do not have a large screen, you may click on the small hamburger icon beside the title of the course to hide the left-side navigation menu. You can then unhide it by clicking on the same icon again.

🧑   Efficient Learning Tips

The following tips can help you have an efficient learning experience with this short course and other courses.

🧑   Create a Dedicated Study Space: Establish a quiet, organized workspace free from distractions. A dedicated learning environment can significantly improve concentration and overall learning efficiency.

📅   Develop a Consistent Learning Schedule: Consistency is key to learning. Set out specific times in your day for study and make it a routine. Consistent study times help build a habit and improve information retention.

Tip: Set a recurring event and reminder in your calendar, with clear action items, to get regular notifications about your study plans and goals.

☕   Take Regular Breaks: Include short breaks in your study sessions. The Pomodoro Technique, which involves studying for 25 minutes followed by a 5-minute break, can be particularly effective.

💬   Engage with the Community: Participate in forums, discussions, and group activities. Engaging with peers can provide additional insights, create a sense of community, and make learning more enjoyable.

✍   Practice Active Learning: Don't just read or run notebooks or watch the material. Engage actively by taking notes, summarizing what you learn, teaching the concept to someone else, or applying the knowledge in your practical projects.

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Agent Skills with Anthropic

Instructor: Elie Schoppik

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  • Beginner
  • 10 Video Lessons
  • Instructor: Elie Schoppik
    • Anthropic
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What you'll learn

  • Create reusable skills using the open standard format and best practices, and compose them to create complex workflows.

  • Build custom skills for code generation and review workflows, data analysis, and research that your agent loads on-demand.

  • Combine skills with MCP and subagents to create powerful agentic systems with specialized knowledge and access to external data sources.

About this course

Join this new short course on Agent Skills, built in partnership with Anthropic and taught by Elie Schoppik.

Skills are folders of instructions that extend agent capabilities with specialized knowledge. Instead of repeatedly explaining the same workflow, you can package it as a skill so your agent automatically knows what to do. Because skills follow an open standard format, you can build them once and deploy across any skills-compatible agent.

In this course, you’ll learn how skills work, explore best practices for creating them, and build skills for different use cases. You’ll see skills in action across Claude.ai, Claude Code, the Claude API, and the Claude Agent SDK, and learn how to combine them with MCP and subagents for complex workflows.

In detail, you’ll:

  • Understand how skills transform general-purpose agents into specialists when needed.
  • Learn the structure of a skill folder, the format of SKILL.md file, and how skills use progressive disclosure to manage context efficiently.
  • Understand how Agent Skills compares to tools, MCP, and subagents.
  • Explore Anthropic’s pre-built skills for Excel, PowerPoint and Skill Creation, and use them with Claude.ai to build a marketing campaign analysis workflow.
  • Create custom skills following best practices: build skills for generating practice questions from lecture notes and analyzing time series data characteristics.
  • Use custom and pre-built skills with the Claude API, by integrating the code execution tool and files API to equip Claude with filesystem access and bash for executing python scripts.
  • Build code generation, review, and testing workflows with Claude Code using skills, and set up subagents equipped with skills for specialized tasks with isolated context.
  • Create a research agent using the Claude Agent SDK that leverages a skill to generate a learning guide for an open-source tool based on its documentation, GitHub repo, and web search.

Whether you’re automating code reviews, standardizing data analysis workflows, or building research agents, this course gives you hands-on experience creating skills that make general-purpose agents more reliable and capable.

Who should join?

Any AI builder who wants to extend agent capabilities with reusable workflows and specialized knowledge.

Course Outline

10 Lessons・0 Code Examples

Instructor

Elie Schoppik

Elie Schoppik

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