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Installing Anthropic's 16 official Claude skills into your co-writer system and layering them with context profiles lets you autonomously generate professional presentations, PDFs, and other assets that match your voice and brand.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- You're using Claude Code as a co-writing system and want to expand its capabilities without learning custom skill architecture from scratch.
- A writer, content creator, or knowledge worker who regularly uses Claude for drafting and needs your co-writer to handle PDFs, presentations, or multi-format outputs automatically.
- You've built a Claude Code workspace with context folders and want to layer in Anthropic's official skills to automate recurring writing tasks without additional configuration.
SKIP IF…
- You haven't set up a Claude Code co-writing system yet — this video assumes you already have a working .Claude folder structure and context profiles in place.
- You're building custom skills or need advanced skill architecture beyond what Anthropic's packaged repository offers — this covers installation and basic integration, not skill design.
The full version, fast.
Claude Code becomes a real co-writing system when you layer Anthropic's official skills repository on top of context profiles that describe your voice, audience, and brand. Install all 16 packaged skills in roughly two minutes by running /plugin inside Claude Code, opening the marketplaces tab, and adding anthropics/skills � every skill registers automatically and Claude invokes the right one when you describe a task in plain language. The highest-leverage skills for writers are front-end design for presentations and landing pages, PDF for lead magnets and guides, spreadsheets for tracking, and skill-creator for packaging your own. The real lift comes from combining skills with a built-out .claude folder containing voice DNA, ICP, business profile, and brand assets, then iterating outputs through natural-language edits.
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00:00 – 01:04
01 · Intro & pre-sell
States the promise ('upgrade your co-writer'), acknowledges the Claude Code Masterclass as prerequisite, sets up the skills concept.
01:04 – 02:35
02 · What are skills?
Four-property definition: packaged instructions, teach Claude HOW, write once/use forever, auto-activate. Not traditional prompts.
02:35 – 04:20
03 · Skill structure
Two-column diagram — Basic (.claude/skills/name/SKILL.md) vs With Resources (adds templates/ and references/). ICP context profile as the worked example.
04:20 – 05:05
04 · How skills auto-activate
Flow diagram: ask → scan available skills → find match → load skill → execute automatically. Notes near-100% hit rate in practice.
05:05 – 08:00
05 · Installing Anthropic's official skills
Live terminal demo: type `claude` → /plugin → Marketplaces tab → Add Marketplace → paste anthropics/skills → enter. Error shown confirms it was already installed. Two categories: document skills and example skills.
08:00 – 10:00
06 · The full list + picks for writers
Queries Claude for available skills. Full list: PDF, spreadsheet, document, presentations, frontend-design, canvas-design, algorithmic-arts, Theme Factory, MCP Builder, Skill Creator, web app testing. Then 2x2 grid: frontend-design (TOP PICK), pdf (TOP PICK), xlsx (ESSENTIAL), skill-creator (ESSENTIAL).
10:00 – 11:00
07 · Auto-invocation mechanics
Core message: you don't invoke manually. Describe what you want, Claude scans skills and picks. Caveat: watch the thinking stream to confirm activation; cancel + restart if it skips.
11:00 – 12:25
08 · The magic — skills + context profiles
Standalone skills are good. Combined with voice DNA, ICP JSON, business profile, brand colors folder — that's supercharging. The co-writer becomes context-aware.
12:25 – 15:30
09 · Live demo: presentation
Opens Claude Code, references Substack newsletter, sends 'create a presentation using your front end design skill.' Watches skill activate in thinking stream. Output: 9-slide HTML presentation with dark editorial aesthetic, glowing effects, code callouts.
15:30 – 17:25
10 · Iterating with brand guidelines
Shows raw output, admits it doesn't look perfect yet. Explains the iteration loop: point Claude to brand folder, images, guidelines — keep rebuilding. His own polished presentations came from this loop.
17:25 – 19:00
11 · Live demo: PDF lead magnet
Same newsletter, 'create a PDF I can use as a lead magnet.' PDF skill writes a Python script internally, generates PDF, saves to project root. Same brand iteration caveat applies.
19:00 – 19:52
12 · Wrap + coming up
CTA: Substack, waitlist for co-writer system, comment what you built. Teases next: deep dives, chaining skills together, full Claude features breakdown for writers.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- Anthropic's official Claude Code skills repository contains 16 packaged skills installable via the /plugin command in two minutes without manual file management.
- A Claude Code skill is a write-once markdown file that Claude invokes autonomously when it determines the task matches — no manual activation required.
- Skills scan the task description and auto-load the matching skill context, which means the right expertise activates without the user knowing it happened.
- An ICP context profile skill interviews the user through 20+ questions and outputs a JSON document that permanently tells Claude who it is writing for.
- Subfolders inside a skill folder (templates, references) can package supporting documents alongside the skill instructions, enabling complex multi-step workflows in one skill call.
- The skills folder lives inside the .claude directory alongside agents, settings, and CLAUDE.md — it is the library layer of the entire co-writing system.
- Anthropic's official skill repository is the highest-signal starting point because the skills are designed by the people who built the tool.
- A PDF creation skill and a presentation creation skill layered on top of context profiles produce personalized professional documents without any template setup.
- Claude Code's autonomous skill invocation means adding more skills increases capability without increasing the prompts the user needs to write.
- Context profiles (JSON files) give Claude stable knowledge about your voice, business, and audience that persists across sessions without consuming conversation context.
- The /plugin command is the gateway to both Anthropic's official skills and third-party skill ecosystems — one command to extend the entire capability set.
- Skills are reusable capital — the effort of writing or installing one skill compounds across every future task that matches its domain.
Skills Plus Context Profiles Is the Architecture That Turns Claude Into a Co-Writer That Knows You
Claude Code skills
Alex McFarland's walkthrough shows that skills alone are a quality upgrade — skills combined with voice DNA, an ICP profile, a business document, and a brand folder are what turn Claude Code into a co-writer with institutional memory.
02What are skills?
- Four properties: packaged instructions, they teach Claude how (not what), write once and use forever, auto-activate on description match
- Skills are not traditional prompts — they are reusable capabilities that persist across sessions
03Skill structure
- Basic skill: .claude/skills/name/SKILL.md — the instruction file is the entire skill
- Skills with resources add a templates/ and references/ folder alongside the SKILL.md — use this pattern when the skill needs example output or reference material
04How skills auto-activate
- The activation flow runs automatically: Claude scans available skills, finds a match by description, loads it, and executes
- Near-100% hit rate in practice — the failure mode is silent skipping, which you catch by watching the thinking stream
05Installing Anthropic's official skills
- Two commands: /plugin → Marketplaces → Add Marketplace → paste anthropics/skills — the entire install takes under two minutes
- Two categories: document skills (PDF, spreadsheet, presentations, document) and example skills (frontend-design, canvas-design, algorithmic-arts, Theme Factory)
07Auto-invocation mechanics
- Describe what you want in natural language — Claude picks the skill; you do not need to name it explicitly
- If the skill is skipped, cancel and re-prompt with a description that more explicitly matches the skill's domain
08The magic — skills + context profiles
- Standalone skills are a quality upgrade; combined with voice DNA, ICP JSON, business profile, and brand folder they produce context-aware output
- The co-writer becomes useful when it knows your voice, your audience, and your brand — the skill handles format, the context profile handles identity
09Live demo: presentation
- One prompt referencing a Substack newsletter produced a 9-slide HTML presentation with a dark editorial aesthetic in a single pass
- Watch the thinking stream to confirm the frontend-design skill activated before the output renders
10Iterating with brand guidelines
- First-pass output will not match a polished finished product — that is expected and not a failure
- The iteration loop is: point Claude at brand folder, images, and guidelines → rebuild → review → repeat until output matches brand standards
11Live demo: PDF lead magnet
- The PDF skill generates a Python script internally, runs it, and saves the output to the project root — the user sees a finished PDF without writing any code
- Same brand iteration caveat applies: first pass is a foundation, not a final product
Terms worth knowing.
- Claude Code
- Anthropic's command-line coding assistant that runs locally and can be given persistent instructions, context profiles, and skills to automate writing and development tasks.
- Claude Skills
- Packaged instruction sets stored as Markdown files that teach Claude Code how to perform specific tasks automatically when relevant, without needing to be invoked manually each time.
- dot Claude folder (.claude)
- A hidden configuration directory in a project where Claude Code stores skills, agents, settings, and other persistent resources it can reference during sessions.
- Plugin marketplace
- An in-app registry within Claude Code (accessed via /plugin) where users can discover and install packaged skill repositories from external sources like GitHub.
- Context profile
- A document or folder within a Claude Code co-writing system that provides Claude with persistent background knowledge such as audience details, brand voice, or business information.
- ICP (Ideal Client Profile)
- A structured document defining the target audience for content or products, used here as a context profile so Claude always writes with the correct reader in mind.
- Frontend design skill
- An Anthropic-provided Claude skill that generates production-quality HTML/CSS interfaces and presentations, aiming for more distinctive output than generic AI design tools.
- PDF skill
- A Claude skill that generates formatted PDF documents — such as lead magnets or guides — by writing and executing a Python script that produces the file.
- Lead magnet
- A free downloadable resource (e.g., a guide or checklist) offered to attract potential subscribers or customers, commonly used in email marketing.
- Co-writing system
- A structured Claude Code project folder combining system instructions, context profiles, and skills so the AI assistant can produce brand-consistent content with minimal manual prompting.
- Skill Creator
- An Anthropic-provided Claude skill that helps users build and package new custom skills, generating the required Markdown file structure automatically.
Things they pointed at.
00:41linkClaude Code Masterclass (prerequisite)
16:00productLovable (mentioned as comparison)
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“99% of people don't even realize that they can be doing this.”
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“You don't invoke them manually. Just describe what you want, and Claude figures out the skill.”
11:03
“If you have standalone skills, that's great. They work incredible. But when you combine these with our cowriting system, with our context profiles — that's when you're really supercharging your cowriter.”
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“Write once and use forever and then auto activate.”
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00:00In today's video, I'm gonna show you how to upgrade your co writer inside of Claude by using Anthropics official repository of Claude's skills. If you are not using Claude code for co writing tasks, you're behind.
00:15You should be doing that. But if you're serious about writing in any way or if writing is important to your career, your role, whatever it is you're doing, your business, your brand, then you should be building out a cowriting system inside of Claude code.
00:27And once you do that, you can start upgrading it with all of these cool new tools that are coming out like Anthropix Claude skills. Now before doing that, I recommend that you check out my Claude code master class that I released last week. Because inside of that Claude code master class, which I'll link here, you're gonna get a starting folder, a starting pack, a Claude code starting pack that you can use with Claude code as your co writer.
00:52And you can open it up with Claude code, and you just jump right ahead with everything you need. I'm not gonna rehash everything here. Check out that video.
00:59I'll link it. But if you do have that, it's gonna make this easier to jump right into. Alright?
01:04So go set up your cowriting system, and then what we can do is upgrade it with Claude's skills. So what are skills? A quick quick rundown in case you don't know.
01:14These are packaged instructions. Alright? These are packaged instructions you can hand off to Claude.
01:19These are not your traditional prompts. These are not like a structured procedure you follow. It's like a one and done, write it once, use it forever type situation.
01:28And what these Claude skills do is they teach Claude how to do specific tasks the right way. They give it a you know, in other words, it's like specialized knowledge that you're putting inside of your co writer. And, like I said, write once and use forever and then auto activate.
01:44So Claude will invoke these. Claude code, your co writer system will invoke these automatically or autonomously, and you don't really have to do anything about it.
01:53So if you tell it, you know, to complete a task and it has one of these skills available to it, it should autonomously invoke it. It doesn't work a 100 of the time, but almost always, it will invoke it.
02:04So before we start looking at how to actually put this into our co writer, there's really two main skill structures that you're gonna see that are really important that exists with Claude or Anthropix official skills as well as custom skills that I build and other people build. You're gonna see two types here. So the basic here on the left that you're looking at in this presentation, this is your basic skills file.
02:27And what this looks like is it's inside of your dot Claude folder, which is your most important folder in Claude code. It's where all of your Claude stuff lives, your agents, your Claude skills, your settings, and stuff like that. So you're gonna have a skills folder inside of that dot Claude folder, and then you're simply gonna have the file, which is the skill name.
02:47And then inside of it, you're gonna have a markdown file, and that's all it is. A skill, you know, a simple skill. Your basic skill is going to be just a really long markdown file.
02:57Alright? Formatted in a very specific way, which you can read and and we'll talk about, but you need to format it in a specific way, and that's how it works. But you can also upgrade that skill even further by putting subfolders in here of, like, templates and references.
03:11So for example, you know, one of these skills I have is a Claude skill that helps you that helps you develop a ideal client profile context profile.
03:24Sounds crazy, but an ICP context profile. So this is like a JSON document you can put inside of your co writer, and then Claude will always know who your audience is, you know, who you're writing for, who you're targeting. Right?
03:35Your ICP. And I have a skill that does that, that literally will interview you. Alright?
03:41It's gonna interview you. And in these, like, templates here in these references, I'll include an entire, you know, set 20 plus interview questions for Claude to follow when interviewing the user for building their ICP.
03:55Alright? And and then that is, like, besides the this is next to the regular markdown file, which teaches it what to do. So the markdown file might tell it, like, check out your your questionnaire that's in your templates and then use that.
04:08So that's just how it works. You could package up, you know, a simple Markdown file, or you can have it with resources. So you could really get creative here and build really cool stuff inside of Claude Skills.
04:18Claude Skills have been out for a while now, more than a month or maybe even longer, but people are not utilizing it enough. It is one of the greatest features that we have for cowriting inside of Claude. So, you know, I use them every day across all sorts of use cases.
04:32So how skills work? Basically, you ask Claude to do something. It scans all of its available skills.
04:39This is a very basic way of looking at it. It scans all of its available skills, and then when it finds something that matches, it'll autonomously load up that skill with all the context inside of it and then use it.
04:48Alright? And it's just scanning, you know, summaries of each skill to know which one to use and then pull that in. Now, you know, like I said, that's just a very basic way of doing it, but you can get really creative in a cowriting system.
04:59You can have agents. You can point skill. You can tell agents to point towards specific skills, etcetera.
05:05So there are many different things to do here. But today, what we're focused on is Anthropix official repository of Claude skills, which nobody you know, a lot of people don't talk about. Alright?
05:15And to do that, all you're gonna do is come to the public repository, which I'll link below. And you can read through this if you want, but it's gonna talk about it, what this is. This repository contains skills that demonstrate what's possible with Claude's skills system.
05:28These skills range from creative applications to technical tasks, like testing web apps, MCP servers, to enterprise workflows communication branding.
05:37Alright? Each skill is self contained in its own folder with a skill dot m d file containing the instructions and metadata that Claude uses. Browse through these, and then you're gonna see some instructions for installing it, which I'm gonna show you right now, which is super simple.
05:51And if you click this folder here, you can see all of the skills here. Right? Now to install it, it's super easy.
05:58What we're gonna do is I'm gonna open up my co writer here. Like I said, check out the master class if you haven't already. So that's what you're looking at.
06:05And I have my whole co writing system opened up here as my folder. And what we're gonna do here is when you if you're using, for example, this extension on cursor, you need to open up a terminal because it's only gonna work in the regular terminal here with Claude.
06:20So we're gonna activate Claude. We're gonna tell it gonna activate it just by saying Claude inside of our terminal. And to to install all of these skills inside of Claude, what you need to do here is very simply do slash plugin.
06:34Alright? And these skills are included in a plugin that you could put inside of Cloud Code. We're not gonna dive deep into plugins in this video.
06:42That's a whole another thing to talk about, but you don't need to know much about it for this right now. So you're just gonna put slash plugin, And what this is gonna do is open up, okay, all these different plug ins that you can install.
06:56But what we wanna do is tab over to marketplaces here. Okay? And you're gonna get over to marketplaces, and you're gonna click add marketplace.
07:04And when you click add marketplace, you're gonna come back to the the GitHub documentation here, and you're gonna see that you have right here, plug in marketplaceaddanthropics.skills. All we gotta do is take this anthropix.
07:17Or anthropicanthropix/skills, and you're gonna add it in the marketplace right here. And you're gonna click enter.
07:23And this is gonna add it into your colloid code. You're gonna see I'm gonna get an error here because it's already installed here. But when you do it, if you haven't installed already, it's gonna upload all of these skills into your marketplace.
07:35And then all you gotta do, let's go back in the plugin once you have it installed, and you're gonna come over here and you're gonna see you're gonna have discover and install, and you're gonna be able to install Now there are two categories that Anthropic uses for their official skills.
07:50We have document skills, and we have example skills. And this breaks down into, like, creating specific documents.
07:57We're talking PDFs, PowerPoints, and then other skills. So it's broken down into two categories.
08:02I just upload all of them. Okay? I uploaded all the skills here so we have access to all of it.
08:08And then what's gonna happen is these skills are living in the plugin, so you don't have to mess with them. You don't have to do anything else manually. These are already inside of your Claude code, inside of your co writer here, your project.
08:20And then we'll just test it out by asking Claude, can you tell me what available skills you have from the Anthropic marketplace?
08:27We're just gonna ask you that so we can see. But it's as simple as that. You're just gonna use a plugin, you're gonna add the marketplace, and you are going to install all the skills.
08:37You could see here I just asked it what available skills there are, and it's telling us here we have PDF manipulation. We have spreadsheet creation, document creation, presentations.
08:48Then we have some design and creative skills. We have front end design, canvas design, algorithmic arts. And we have Theme Factory, MCP Builder, Skill Creator, web app testing.
08:59So we asked them what the skills are. We know they're already loaded up. Alright?
09:03This is the full list here, which I kinda just read to you. But there are a couple that I think are super important for people who are using Clyde Code as a cowriter, and that is front end design, which is gonna allow you to create, like, incredible visuals, landing pages, web content, supplemental content that goes alongside your writing.
09:22For For example, in these presentations that you're watching that I do, I've had a lot of comments on them from YouTube, people asking about it, and I'm literally using a front end design skill in Cloud Code inside of my co writer to create these presentations. Another one's PDF, which works for lead magnets, downloadable guides, formatting documents, professional papers, reports, all of that.
09:44We also have spreadsheets, which is cool and important. And then skill creator, which is literally a skill that helps you create other skills. Okay?
09:51And we're not gonna dive into that today, but when we talk about custom skills, that's that's an easy way to package it up into a custom skill. Okay? So we installed it already.
10:01We talked about what happens. These get registered, and now we can access them all. You don't invoke them manually.
10:06Like I mentioned, you don't have to invoke these manually, which I'm gonna now run through and show you. You can just describe what you want, and then Claude will autonomously decide on what skill to use. Now with that said, this does not work a 100% of the time, so you need to always make sure that if you really want it to be using a specific skill, you might as well just call out that skill or just pay attention to make sure that as in its thinking process and it's running, it actually activates that skill.
10:30If not, you need to cancel and start over. But, really, theoretically, and what works most of the time in my experience is you can just simply say things like, create a presentation about x, and it's gonna use front end design or the PowerPoint. You're gonna say, a PDF guide for my lead magnet.
10:44Boom. It's gonna activate the PDF skill. Build me a spreadsheet to track content, etcetera, creating landing page for my course.
10:50Alright. So it does a really good job at that. Now the magic the magic that really comes in is skills.
10:56If you have standalone skills, that's great. They work incredible. But when you combine these with our cowriting system, with our context profiles, and then you combine those with our skills, that's when you're really, like, .
11:11So let's take a look at that now and what I mean by that. So when you watch the master class or when you build a cowriting system, one of the things you really need to have are context profiles like this, like our voice DNA, which writes in our voice, my ICP, which I talked about earlier, which is my audience.
11:28I have a business profile. Right? Really multipage context profiles.
11:33Then I have even more in supplementary. Product page product pages, pricing, etcetera.
11:39We could put brand colors here in our cowriting system as well, which doesn't even need to be in the context profiles. We can have a brand folder here in our cowriter talking about our colors, our fonts, everything. And that is when it just really starts to supercharge everything.
11:53So, for example, let's do this. Let's let's take a look. If you look here, I have my co writer.
12:00Probably looks different than yours because it's built out. Like, I have everything built out in here, but we could take a look at our newsletters here. And one of the substack newsletters I posted, right, which was the Claude code master class last week.
12:12Alright? What I can do is open a new Claude code, and to the right here, you see this is the substack I did on my Claude code master class. And what I can do is literally tell Claude right here, take a look at my Claude code for writing master class sub stack newsletter and create a presentation using your front end design skill.
12:33And we're just gonna send that. And you're gonna see that now it's gonna create a presentation for my newsletter.
12:40You can use this with transcripts. You can use it for marketing material. Everybody has their own use cases of what you can use this for.
12:47In my co writer, what's gonna happen is it's gonna read all my context profiles in my system. And as you can see right here, what's happening is it reviewed the cloud code for writing master class newsletter, and now it's creating a presentation using the front end design skill. In this, you could see it's activating the skill right here.
13:06Alright? Skill document skills front end design, launching skills document front end design. And then this that pops up is the actual skill.
13:14So you can read through that. For example, this skill guides the creation of distinctive production grade front end interfaces combining with all of my own context and knowledge here.
13:27What it's gonna do here is create the whole presentation. So I'm gonna let that run for a second, and then I'm gonna open up another one just to show you a couple different things we can do. What we can do now is take a look at my colloid code master class published newsletter and create a PDF document or a PDF guide that I can use as a lead magnet based on that master class.
13:48We're gonna tell her that, and now it should invoke the PDF skill to create a PDF, which you could, you know, brand and use as a lead magnet or whatever, send to clients, whatever it is you do. So here, it's gonna think, and it's gonna read my context profiles.
14:04It's gonna understand my system here because I have a very detailed system instructions here inside of Claude telling it to read my context profiles. If that's something you're interested in, make sure to join my Substack, sign up for my wait list for the co writer system, which is going to teach you how to build out these really detailed system instructions and, honestly, just give you the ones I use as well.
14:27So it's gonna ask now, do we wanna proceed with this skill? And now it's using the PDF skills. So now it's gonna create a PDF.
14:34So I'm gonna let those two run and then show you because those are the two that I think are, you know, two of the best ones is PDFs and presentations. And then we can come back here and check what it's like when it's done. Okay.
14:46So after a few minutes, it runs through the skills, and it did both. It created the presentation, and it created the PDF. Let's take a look at both, starting with the presentation.
14:55I told it to take a look at my Claude code writing master class newsletter and create a presentation using the front end design skill. It used it and done.
15:03What it did was created a nine slide interactive presentation. It saved it here into our cowriting folders, and it saved it.
15:12It gave us some details about the design direction, the different slides. And what we're gonna do is you're gonna see it right here.
15:19It saves it as an HTML file on your computer. So now you just gotta open that in your browser. So I have it open right here.
15:25I'm gonna open, and here is the presentation. So we have Cloud Code for writing, build an AI co writing system that actually knows you. We're gonna go through The Internet is drowning in AI swap.
15:36We have from prompting the systems. It's very dynamic. You can see here with glowing effects and hovers.
15:43It even does these, like, amazing, like, code callouts, these designs, the emoji. The point of this front end design is to I'm sure you've seen it by now.
15:52There's a lot of people who create websites and apps and stuff on Lovable, and they all look like they just screamed AI generator, right, with the colors, with the emojis, and stuff like this.
16:01So the front end design is supposed to avoid that. You could see we have a lot more dynamic stuff that we wouldn't get on something like Lovable. We can even put buttons and everything.
16:09Now with that said, if you look at this, you know, it still doesn't look perfect to me. Like, I I don't I don't like this necessarily, and it doesn't match with my brand. So that is where you are going to find so much success by having a a a really built out co writer system.
16:27Because what you can do, for exam is then in your Claude code, you can literally, like, for example, in your chat, start telling Claude now, alright. Now make this edit or make that edit. You can point it towards folders in your co writer system.
16:40You could point it towards branding folders with images. Claude can look at images. It can process images, colors, maybe have branding guidelines, stuff to follow, and you can point it to that and keep rebuilding.
16:50And what you're gonna end up with, which is exactly what I did, is a presentation like this that a lot of you have called beautiful and loved it in my YouTube comments. And that is because I worked together with Claude in my co writer system to build it out with my, you know, correct brand guidelines, font, colors, you know, just all around how I how I like it.
17:11It was never really that possible to get these AI tools to build it exactly what it is, you know, that you wanted, but we're getting pretty close here. So that's the presentation you can do with Claude skills in your co writer system.
17:23Now let's look at the PDF, which is the last thing we did. And I open up this this second shot here, and it's really interesting how this works. So once we tell it to create a PDF, we use the same newsletter and master class.
17:36What it's gonna actually do is it's gonna invoke that skill, and with that skill, it's going to write up an entire Python script to create a PDF, and then it's gonna create it here. You're gonna see it generated the PDF lead magnet. You can literally download it here and put it puts it inside of your folders here in your root files.
17:53And then it created the PDF. It gives a summary, and then we could click this here. And here is the PDF it created for the collide code for writing quick start guide, those are AI co writing system in thirty minutes.
18:05It gives us two different things to follow. And same scenario applies here as the presentation where, of course, right now, this doesn't look great.
18:14I would not just send this out. But what I can do now is iterate inside of this chat with natural language. I don't have to be technical.
18:21I don't have to know anything about this. I can just ask Claude to make these changes to this PDF, put branding in it, put images.
18:28If I want, I can create a folder of assets here. I can point Claude to that folder, tell it to use these assets in the PDF. Like, there's no limit to what you could do with all of this stuff.
18:38It's pretty incredible. 99% of people don't even realize that they can be doing this.
18:42So if you are a writer, if you are a professional and you rely on content in any way, shape, or form, which is pretty much everybody at this point, if you're a technical writer, professional writer, marketing professional, ghostwriter, anything like that, There are so many tools available to you if you build a CoWriter system now that you can build out lead magnets, assets, presentations.
19:02I run all my operations solo by myself, true solopreneur. I've talked about it before, and I do all of this with all the amazing stuff I run with my CoWriter system and using Claude's skills and building out assets.
19:14So definitely go check this out. Supercharge your system with these Claude's skills.
19:19This is only 16 of Anthropic's official repository. There's communities of skills that you can be using.
19:26Alright? So make sure to check that out. Make sure to check out my Substack.
19:29Subscribe if you want any of the assets I use in my videos. Sign up for a wait list if you're interested in getting my entire collection of skills and system prompts, drop a comment below.
19:39Let me know. Drop a comment about what you build or what you would like to see because then maybe we could create cloud skills or find one out there. Alright?
19:47Check it out. Subscribe. Check out the cloud code masterclass, and until next video.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Most people using Claude Code are leaving half the toolkit on the table. Alex McFarland opens with the kind of claim that stops the scroll — ninety-nine percent don't know this exists — then spends twenty minutes proving it by installing Anthropic's official skills repository live and watching it generate a branded nine-slide presentation in under five minutes.
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:04concept
Skills = Packaged Instructions
- Packaged instructions — not prompts
- Teach Claude HOW to do specific tasks
- Write once, use forever
- Auto-activate when relevant
Four-property definition that positions skills as a different category from prompts or procedures.
Steal forAny explainer of a new tool type — lead with what it ISN'T before defining what it IS
02:35model
Basic vs With Resources skill structure
- Basic: .claude/skills/name/SKILL.md
- With Resources: adds templates/ and references/ subfolders
Two-tier architecture for skills — markdown-only vs markdown + supporting files. The ICP questionnaire is the worked example of the With Resources tier.
Steal forPackaging any repeatable Claude workflow — templates and references make skills much more powerful than a standalone prompt
11:00model
Co-Writer Context Stack
- Voice DNA — writes in your voice
- ICP JSON — who your audience is
- Business profile — goals/offers/positioning
- Brand folder — colors, fonts, images
The layering of context profiles that makes skills output match your brand instead of generic AI output.
Steal forJoe's JoeFlow / MCN+ co-writer setup — this is exactly the context architecture Joe already runs, but McFarland is monetizing it as a product
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
19:15newsletter
“Make sure to check out my Substack. Subscribe if you want any of the assets I use in my videos. Sign up for a wait list if you're interested in getting my entire collection of skills and system prompts.”
Soft close, no hard sell. Three parallel CTAs: subscribe, waitlist, comment. Waitlist is the money ask buried in the middle.
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FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
