Course overview
This course is for product managers, founders and builders who keep redoing the same deliverables with AI and want to turn them into a reliable method. You learn to turn a recurring task into a Claude Skill that triggers at the right moment, produces a checkable result and can be shared with your team. You leave with a tested, installed skill.
Lesson objective
By the end of this overview, you will know what you are going to deliver (a tested, installed and shareable skill for a recurring product deliverable) and how the three modules take you there.
Topics covered
- Claude Skills
- build a skill
- SKILL.md
- automate a product deliverable
- product manager
Where it fits
Overview
What will I build in this course, and in what order?
Lessons in this module
- Course overview (this lesson)
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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