Teaching Claude your craft.
Claude arrives as a brilliant but generic apprentice. Hand it a rulebook (context), teach it lessons (skills), give it tools (MCP), and train a whole guild (your team) — until it works like a master who knows your shop. Every episode: the concept, then a live build you can copy.
EPISODES
What a Skill actually is — the SKILL.md file, frontmatter, progressive disclosure, and how Claude decides when to invoke one. We dissect this repo's own new-episode skill.
The CLAUDE.md hierarchy, memory files, project vs user instructions, and what to put where. We author a context rulebook for a sample project from scratch.
Authoring anatomy — naming, descriptions that trigger correctly, and scoping. We build a brand-new skill end to end.
Ep 4Skill patterns — bundled scripts, reference files, multi-file skills, and the token economics of loading only what's needed. We refactor a fat skill into a lean one.
Ep 5Connecting skills to the outside world — MCP servers, tool gating, and when to wrap an API as a tool. We wire a skill to a live MCP server.
Ep 6Sharing, versioning, plugins, the marketplace, and shared org conventions. We package and distribute a skill across a team.
Ep 7Everything applied to real nop-station nopCommerce and daily dev workflows. We build a production skill the team will actually use.
BonusComposing it all into hands-off workflows — skills calling subagents, hooks enforcing the rules. A self-running pipeline from the season's pieces.