Module 4 of 5Lesson 3 of 4~14 min
Choose, audit and share skills
Ready-to-install skills are multiplying, and some can carry out actions you never meant to allow. This lesson helps you find the ones that truly serve a PM, examine them from a security angle before installing them, and choose how to distribute your own skills across your team.
Lesson objective
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to select existing skills suited to your context, audit them before installing with a security grid, and choose the right channel for sharing your own skills.
Topics covered
- auditing a skill
- skills for PMs
- skill security
- sharing a skill
- Claude Skills
Where it fits
Test, share and measure
How do I prove a skill works, use it in a real workflow, share it safely and track its value?
Lessons in this module
- Test a skill before relying on it
- Case study: the skill in a real PRD workflow
- Choose, audit and share skills (this lesson)
- Measure value and help a skill mature
What you will learn in the course
This lesson is part of the course Build reliable Claude Skills for your product work
- Identify a recurring task that justifies a skill rather than a one-off prompt, and explain how the skill is loaded (progressive disclosure).
- Choose and justify the right mechanism for a given need (skill, CLAUDE.md, subagent, MCP server, hook).
- Write a name and description that trigger the skill at the right moment, and choose who can invoke it.
- Design a complete SKILL.md (frontmatter, checkable rules, procedure, output format, reference files) from a scoping brief.
- Configure a skill's pre-approved and removed tools according to risk, without confusing pre-approval with restriction.
- Test a skill's triggering and output with evaluation scenarios, iterate, then measure its value over time.
- Choose, audit and share skills (third-party or internal) while managing the security risks.
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