Anthropic Launches Claude Agent Skills: Modular Reusable Skill Packs for Claude Agents
Anthropic has quietly shipped one of the more significant developer-facing features of early 2026: a formal Agent Skills framework that gives Claude agents a structured, reusable way to acquire new capabilities. If you’ve been following the OpenClaw ecosystem, this will feel familiar — OpenClaw’s own SKILL.md-based skill system predated this by months. But Anthropic’s formal framework brings first-party documentation, cross-platform compatibility, and a growing third-party marketplace that changes the calculus for teams building on Claude. ...