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it's just a text file where you have to explain what you want done
Claude Skills are not just a single text file. Anthropic defines them as folders/directories containing a required `SKILL.md` file and, often, additional scripts or resource files.
Full reasoning
Anthropic's own documentation describes Agent Skills as "organized folders of instructions, scripts, and resources" rather than a lone text file. In the product blog introducing the feature, Anthropic says: "A skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file" and explains that skills can also bundle additional files and executable code.
Anthropic's official anthropics/skills repository says the same thing: "Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources" and notes that each skill lives in its own folder with a SKILL.md file containing metadata and instructions. The repo also shows that even a basic skill requires YAML frontmatter (name and description) inside SKILL.md, which is more specific than merely "explain what you want done."
So the post's description is materially inaccurate: a Claude Skill is not simply "a text file"; the documented feature is a directory/folder-based package that can include multiple files and code, with SKILL.md as one required component.
2 sources
- Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills | Anthropic | Claude
Introducing Agent Skills, a new way to build specialized agents using files and folders... This led us to create Agent Skills: organized folders of instructions, scripts, and resources... A skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file.
- GitHub - anthropics/skills: Public repository for Agent Skills
Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads dynamically... Each skill is self-contained in its own folder with a SKILL.md file... Creating a Basic Skill: just a folder with a SKILL.md file containing YAML frontmatter and instructions.