# What a Claude Skill Actually Is, and What It Isn't

Published 21/09/2026 by Corey

A Claude skill is a folder of plain instructions sitting in a GitHub repo, which Claude reads at the start of a task the way you'd hand a new hire a runbook. It doesn't make Claude smarter. It makes Claude stop guessing at things you already wrote down the answer to.

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