How Do Claude Skills Work?
Skills are like compact descriptions of custom logics that augment AI capabilities with your own methodologies and workflows. If you're a philosopher or a researcher, it's a great way to prime your model to think in a certain way. If you're a marketer, you can use skills to automate your existing workflows.
To demonstrate how Claude skills work, let's consider an example. If you have a Claude SEO analysis skill from InfraNodus installed in your Claude client, as soon as you tell the model that you'd like to optimize your website for search engines and LLM, it will automatically invoke that SEO skill. Claude will then follow the methodology outlined in the SKILL.md file to:
- • analyze the page's content and structure
- • extract relevant search queries
- • analyze search intent
- • analyze search results
- • find the gaps between search intent and results
- • provide you with a full report on how the content could be improved
Here's what you'll be seeing in your Claude interface:
InfraNodus has a collection of skills that can be used to augment your AI workflows with our methodologies based on SEO methodology, cognitive variability, text network analysis, auto-generation of knowledge graphs and ontologies, and constructing and analyzing social and text networks.
The skills contain references to the different tools available via the InfraNodus MCP Server to perform more complex tasks and workflows.
You can also use the InfraNodus MCP Server to develop your own skills and make sure that your prompts cover all the most important use cases and don't have any gaps.