Claude Code Skill
Anthropic’s agentic coding tool combining autonomous planning, execution, and validation with extensibility through skills, plugins, MCP servers, and hooks.
When to Use
- Installation and setup questions
- Slash commands (/cook, /plan, /fix, /test, /docs, /design, /git)
- Creating/managing Agent Skills
- Configuring MCP servers
- Setting up hooks/plugins
- IDE integration (VS Code, JetBrains)
- CI/CD workflows
- Enterprise deployment (SSO, RBAC, sandboxing)
- Troubleshooting authentication/performance issues
- Advanced features (extended thinking, caching, checkpointing)
Core Concepts
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Subagents | Specialized agents (planner, code-reviewer, tester, debugger, docs-manager, ui-ux-designer, database-admin) |
| Agent Skills | Modular capabilities with SKILL.md + bundled resources loaded progressively |
| Slash Commands | User-defined operations in .claude/commands/ expanding to prompts |
| Hooks | Event-driven shell commands (SessionStart, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop, SubagentStop) |
| MCP Servers | Model Context Protocol integrations for external tools |
| Plugins | Packaged collections distributed via marketplace |
Reference Navigation
| Topic | Reference |
|---|---|
| Installation & setup | references/getting-started.md |
| Slash commands | references/slash-commands.md |
| Workflow examples | references/common-workflows.md |
| Creating skills | references/agent-skills.md |
| MCP servers | references/mcp-integration.md |
| Hooks system | references/hooks-comprehensive.md |
| Plugins | references/hooks-and-plugins.md |
| Configuration | references/configuration.md |
| Enterprise | references/enterprise-features.md |
| IDE integration | references/ide-integration.md |
| CI/CD | references/cicd-integration.md |
| Advanced features | references/advanced-features.md |
| Troubleshooting | references/troubleshooting.md |
| API reference | references/api-reference.md |
| Best practices | references/best-practices.md |
Usage Instructions
When answering questions:
- Identify topic from user query
- Load relevant reference files
- Provide specific guidance with examples
- For complex queries, load multiple references
Documentation Sources
- Context7:
https://context7.com/websites/claude_en_claude-code/llms.txt?tokens=10000 - Topic search:
https://context7.com/websites/claude_en_claude-code/llms.txt?topic=<topic>&tokens=5000 - Official docs
- GitHub
- Support: support.claude.com
Integration with ClaudeKit
Works with:
- skill-creator: Create new skills
- mcp-management: Manage MCP servers
- mcp-builder: Build MCP servers
Key Takeaway
Claude Code skill provides guidance for Anthropic’s agentic coding tool including installation, slash commands, skills, MCP integration, hooks, IDE integration, and enterprise features. Load specific references based on user query topic.