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Anthropic Skills was released in October.
With the feature, Claude can be taught to do repeatable tasks.
Updates include new partners, a new open standard, and more.
Anthropic has distinguished itself from competitors by staying laser-focused on its enterprise customers with offerings catered to make working professionals' lives easier. The Skills feature, launched in October, aimed to do just that, and now it has received an upgrade, making it easier for organizations to take advantage.
With the Skills feature, users can provide Claude with a set of instructions, including resources like brand guidelines, so that the chatbot can reference them when performing specialized tasks autonomously. Since launching, the company has incorporated feedback and is now incorporating that into this new wave of updates, including enhanced collaboration.
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Perhaps the biggest announcement is that Anthropic is launching its Agent Skills specification as an open standard. Similar to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard launched by Anthropic for connecting AI assistants and agents to data systems seamlessly and securely, the Agent Skills open standard makes skills easier to share and deploy to everyone.
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