AI Engineering ／ AI Products and Assisted Design
Installing and Using Skills on Claude.ai (Step-by-Step Guide + When to Use Them)
How to install and enable a Skill on the Claude.ai web app (simply upload the .md file), and what it means for PMs: A Skill is a preloaded "expert instruction manual" built into Claude. When you submit a task, the system automatically inserts the corresponding expert workflow into the context, so Claude works according to validated best practices instead of guessing. Division of content with newtype-skills-collection: that article covers Skill engineering (how to build a good Skill), while this article only covers the two-step install/enable process from the Claude.ai end-user perspective, plus when to use Skills and common pitfalls.