How to Install Skills in Claude Code: 3 Methods

Claude Code becomes a lot more useful once you start adding skills to it. Skills are packaged instructions that teach Claude how to handle specific tasks, from writing commit messages to reviewing code to generating documentation. The good news is that installing them takes less than a minute. There are three ways to add skills to Claude Code. This guide walks through each method with step-by-step instructions so you can pick whichever fits your workflow. Before you start Make sure Claude Code is installed and working. Open your terminal and run: claude --version If you get a version number back, you're good. If not, install Claude Code first by following the instructions at claude.ai/install. Skills are stored in two places: Personal skills go in ~/.claude/skills/ and are available across all your projects Project skills go in .claude/skills/ inside a specific repo and are shared with anyone who clones it Most of the time, you'll install to the personal directory unless you're setting