Create Your First Claude Skill
A 90-minute live workshop · Tuesday, May 26 · 3:00–4:30 PM ET
(recording included)
Every Claude User Eventually Hits the Same Wall
"How do I get Claude to do this without me having to repeat myself every time?"
The answer is a Claude skill.
Write It Once
A skill is a set of instructions you write once for a task you run often.
Activate the Skill
With a single command, Claude reads the skill, follows it, and delivers the outcome as defined.
Process Completes in Seconds
A proposal gets drafted. A follow-up gets written. Data gets analyzed. Key points get delivered. A survey gets created.
What Is a Claude Skill?
A skill is a simple text file
A mini instruction manual for a specific workflow.
You create it once, Claude can repeat the process on a single command.
My Personal Skills in Action
/slop-filter
Activates my AI Slop skill whenever I'm writing
/brand-guidelines
Activates my brand guide skill whenever I'm designing an asset
/build-proposal
Activates my proposal building skill when I need to draft a proposal from a transcript
Not Sure What Skill to Build?
Start with one of these. These three skills work for any business.
AI Slop Filter
Tell Claude exactly how you want it to write and what to avoid. Banned phrases, banned structures, banned tones. Every piece of writing Claude produces for you runs through that filter automatically.
Brand Guidelines
Your colors, fonts, tone, and design preferences. Claude references this every time it designs an asset for you, leading to consistent, on-brand assets every time.
Reasoning Framework
Create a framework for how Claude engages with you when you need a thought partner. How should it challenge you? What questions should it ask? Build this once and every strategic conversation goes through the same reasoning process.
Other Repeatable Processes Professionals Have Turned Into Skills
Monthly Data Analysis
Runs on the same inputs without re-explaining the process.
Proposal Drafting
Drafted automatically from a client transcript.
Follow-Up Emails
Written from a discovery call with no extra prompting.
Form to Next Steps
Form submissions translated into structured next-steps.
Writing Standard Review
Content automatically reviewed against your personal writing standard.
About Vicky Snyder
Who is teaching this workshop?
Vicky spent a year and a half teaching professionals how to use the features inside ChatGPT. She sometimes taught people how to build custom GPTs which, you may know, is a particular kind of optimistic suffering.
ChatGPT just couldn't cut it. It couldn't deliver what professionals needed, which was a much more nimble and malleable platform.
She then discovered that Claude had the exact level of nimbleness and flexibility her students had been looking for. This high degree of versatility and connectivity has become Claude's differentiating factor.
She now teaches how to use the variety of features inside of Claude, helping professionals use AI to remove the friction between where they are and where they want to.
Vicky Snyder is the founder of FLOWSTAIT.
How the 90 Minutes Are Structured
How Skills Work in Claude
You'll get a clear explanation of what a skill is, how Claude reads and activates it, and a demo of ow to create your own.
Build Your Skill
Reason through the process want created into a skill. Once you're happy with the final result, turn the process into a skill with a simple prompt.
Upload, Activate, Test
Upload your skill, activate it, and confirm it works. You test it live before the session ends, and leave with a functioning skill.
Your (Optional) Homework Before the Session
Come to the session with the answer to this question. That's it. That's your only homework.
Step 1: Open Claude
Start a chat window and describe what you do and how you work.
Step 2: Share What Matters
Tell Claude what's most important to you in how you work and which tasks you repeat most often.
Step 3: Ask the Question
Ask Claude: "What would be the most useful first skill for me to build?"
Workshop Details
Event Information
What You'll Walk Away With
- A fully built, working Claude skill
- The ability to activate it with a single command
- A repeatable process that saves you time with each run
- Live testing and confirmation before the session ends
- a recording you can rewatch at any time
Let Your AI Wish Be Claude's Command