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Anthropic announced Skills for Claude on Wednesday.
Users are able to create their own, custom Skills.
Bear in mind that more access to personal data means more risk.
Anthropic launched Skills for Claude on Wednesday, a new feature aimed at making the company's flagship AI chatbot more customizable for individual users and businesses.
You can think of Skills as little digital instruction manuals, each of which can be used by Claude to guide its behavior on a given task. Anthropic described them in a blog post as "custom onboarding materials that let you package expertise, making Claude a specialist on what matters most to you."
How do they work?
Anthropic has developed its own, one-size-fits-all skills -- including those to help generate Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint docs -- but users can also create and upload their own, custom skills. Claude can automatically determine which Skills it should use based on the prompt it's been given by a user.
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