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Latest Updates
New skills, agent releases, and ecosystem updates from the Skills & Agents team.
This Week's Updates: Helping You Be a Better PM
A new Product Manager guide, Copy install prompts on plugin pages, smoother onboarding, and five new plugins in the marketplace.
This Week's Updates: Making It Easier to Find Your Skills
A conversational onboarding chat, Claude Code sign-in for our MCP server, and new Stripe, Small Business, and Sales plugins in the marketplace.
This Week's Updates: A Smarter Skill Search
Skill search that matches every word in any order, a new Security category, run tokens on the account page, and artifact rename.
This Week's Updates: Turn Your Meetings Into a Commitments Tracker
A new Commitments Tracker skill, a workspace feed that shows what needs you, onboarding as a short chat, and private items in the Company Brain.
This Week's Updates: Skills and Agents on One Page
Your aides is now the one page for skills and agents, you can share an agent with someone outside your organization, and adding a skill is now a single zip download.
This Week's Updates: Read and Write Access on Workflow Maps
Workflow maps now show every step that writes or acts, with Read and Write access per tool. Owners and admins get an artifact usage page, and Sonnet 5 run costs now match Anthropic's real pricing.
This Week's Updates: Skills and Agents Are Now Aides
Skills and agents are now called aides. We added email sharing, team picks under Recommended for you, easier uploads, and eight new third-party skills.
This Week's Updates: One-Click Skill Installs
This week we added one-click skill installs, new skill bundles for product builders and RevOps, sharing with people who have no account, and a catalog MCP.
This Week's Updates: Connector Pages for the Catalog
This week we added connector pages for the catalog, improved the ask-assistant with memory and step-by-step planning, and updated the Skills and Agents Platform.
This Week's Updates: An Ask-Assistant on Every Page
A new ask-assistant appeared on every page this week, along with a public connectors index, self-serve invite recovery, and approval checkpoints for agent runs.
This Week's Updates: A Discovery to PRD Skill
A new Discovery to PRD skill went live this week, plus a sortable, filterable skills catalog and a search toolbar in the app's own skills list.
This Week's Updates: A W9 Vendor Check Skill
Three new skills went live this week, including a W9 vendor check and a calendar agent, plus a glossary, mentions on Company Brain entity pages, and a long list of fixes.
How Skills Cut Your AI Token Spend
AI spend creeps up fast. Where the tokens actually go, the fixes that work, and how scoped skills keep the bill visible to finance.
AI Glossary: Skills, Agents, Tokens, and the Rest
Plain definitions for the terms that come up across our skills, agents, and posts, so you only have to look them up once.
What Shipped this Week: Workflow Maps Use Your Company Brain
Workflow map analysis now uses your Company Brain, org admins can set up their marketplace themselves, and the marketplace experience picked up preview cards and a working mobile menu.
What Shipped this Week: A New Board-Deck Skill
A site-wide design pass, a cookie-consent banner, a rewritten about page, a new board-deck skill, a Ramp plugin listing, and the fixes that went out with them.
How to record a Claude skill instead of writing one
Record yourself doing a task in Claude for Mac and Claude writes the skill from what it sees. Setup, permissions, the limit, and what to check before saving.
What AI-Native Means for Non-Engineers
AI-native isn't asking AI to write faster. It pulls your data, drafts the work, checks itself, and hands you one decision to approve each time.
What We Are Reading: Stripe's Internal Knowledge Agent
Stripe built AgentStudio so finance, GTM, and legal teams own their own AI skills. Here is what that means for companies without a platform team.
What Shipped this Week: Per-Skill Cost Tracking
A CFO landing page, a browsable plugins catalog, a variance report skill, per-skill cost tracking for org owners, and the fixes that went out with them.
Build your own Claude skill: a finance leader's guide
A step-by-step guide for finance leaders: plan the skill, write it well, prompt it, fix what breaks at run time, and grow it from a small win to real coverage.
The Ghost SEO Skill That Grew Search Traffic 14x
After a WordPress-to-Ghost migration hurt its search traffic, a daily SEO agent grew one media site's Google traffic 14x. Here is how it ran, day by day.
Draft your investor update from Slack and email
Founders spend two to three hours a month on the investor update. The skill reads your Slack, email, and metrics and drafts it in Elad Gil's format, asks first.
Reconcile Your Carta Cap Table Without File Exports
The equity-reconciliation-carta skill reads your cap table live from Carta over your own OAuth, requires no CSV exports, and stores none of your employee data.
The Knowledge Harness: Making Your Company AI-Native
Getting a good answer from AI is easy. Making it dependable and consistent across your business is the hard part. That is what a knowledge harness does.
What is a skill, and how do you use one
A skill is a package your AI assistant loads to do one task well. Here is what skills and agents are, how they differ, and how to install your first one.
New skills added to the catalog
A new batch of skills and agents just shipped to the catalog, focused on the tasks people run most often: research, drafting in your voice, and live data.
Welcome to Skills and Agents
Skills and Agents is a catalog of ready-to-use capabilities for Claude, ChatGPT, and your IDE. Package a repeatable task once, then install and reuse it.