# Claude Code Skills
The SKILL.md Playbook: Wire Your AI to Build and Ship in One Weekend

- Price: $12.99 (Kindle ebook)
- Level: Beginner
- Pages: 192
- Best for: Your first Claude Code project
- You finish with: Build 5 skills that automate your workflow this weekend
- Series: Claude Code Skills That Pay, book 1 of 2
- Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4tbXnwe
- Web page: https://youcanbuildthings.com/books/claude-skills

## What you get

You open Claude Code. It doesn't know your coding style. It doesn't remember your project rules. This book gives you the complete SKILL.md system. Build your first skill in 10 minutes, then stack 5 skills that turn Claude into an autonomous builder.

The SKILL.md system that Anthropic built but barely documented. Build your first working skill in 10 minutes, then stack a library that makes Claude follow your rules, your style, and your architecture every time.

## Chapters

1. Everyone Else's Claude Remembers. Yours Doesn't.: The blank slate problem and how skills fix it.
2. What Claude Skills Actually Are: 9 skill categories and how they differ from prompts.
3. Your First SKILL.md in 10 Minutes: Folder structure, file naming, anatomy of a skill.
4. The Five Skills Every Developer Needs: Code Style, Stop Slop, Testing, Documentation, Git Commit.
5. Architecture That Scales: Organize 15-20+ skills without naming conflicts.
6. Self-Improving Loops and Memory: Skills that evaluate and update themselves across sessions.
7. Skills for Non-Coders: Design consistency, content voice matching, business reports.
8. Hooks, MCP, and the Full Stack: Wire skills to hooks and MCP servers into automation pipelines.
9. From Skills to Income: Package reusable templates worth $3K-$5K per client.
10. Selling Skills: Marketplace listings, digital products, pricing strategies.
11. When Skills Break: 7 failure modes and a debugging flowchart.
12. Your 30-Day Skills Roadmap: From 5-skill starter to 50+ skill library.

## Free guides from this book

- [Claude Code Hooks Tutorial: Automate Code Review](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-hooks-tutorial.md): A Claude Code hooks tutorial using the real settings.json schema: wire a PostToolUse hook to a review skill. No fictional git-event or blocking fields.
- [Claude Code Skills Not Working? 7 Fixes](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-skills-not-working.md): Claude Code skills not working? Seven failure modes with the exact fix command for each, built on the real directory + SKILL.md spec. ~70% resolve at step 1.
- [How to Build a Self-Improving Claude Code Skill](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/claude-code-self-improving-skill.md): Build a self-improving Claude Code skill the honest way: a human-gated workflow where Claude proposes diffs you approve, plus the $40 runaway to avoid.
- [How to Create a Claude Code Skill in 10 Minutes](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/how-to-create-claude-code-skill.md): How to create a Claude Code skill the right way: a directory with a SKILL.md and a description field, not a flat .md file. Full code and a 4-check fix path.
- [The 5 Best Claude Code Skills Every Developer Builds](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/best-claude-code-skills.md): The 5 best Claude Code skills for developers: Stop Slop, Testing, Documentation, Git Commits, Code Review. Copy-paste SKILL.md files and the trigger for each.