I’ve been playing around with Skills on Claude quite a bit lately – automating common tasks that I’d agonize over that cover all the bases and give me the output to move forward with.
Like anything, I’ve discovered there is a whole “Skills” marketplace, which brought me back to last year when people were buying and selling prompts on prompt exchanges.
I think skills are a great workflow tool. I like being able to tailor and focus them on the work that I do specifically – essentially becoming an extension of my work and less about the prompt I put into an AI or query into a search box.
“Go get this, evaluate, synthesize, and present.”
The marketplace was once where we sold our own abilities, but now they are evolving into us selling the abilities we have created.
The product game is being completed by AI, but the service game is still evolving.
Till then, I got skillzzzzz.