{"product_id":"the-claude-skills-playbook-extend-claude-code-with-custom-skills-and-mcp-20-ready-to-use-templates-inside-9798259142565","title":"The Claude Skills Playbook: Extend Claude Code with Custom Skills and MCP 20 Ready-to-Use Templates Inside","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kit Hennigar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Generative AI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou taught Claude what your project is. Now teach it what you actually do.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery Claude Code user eventually hits the same wall. You write the same instructions in every new session. You explain your tone, your file conventions, your client rules - over and over - because Claude doesn't remember the last project. Even with CLAUDE.md, every new use case starts from a blank prompt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkills end that. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Skill is a small folder with a SKILL.md file inside. You write the instructions once - your voice, your structure, your rules and Claude loads them on demand whenever they apply. Across every project. Across cloud and local models. Across your team. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Claude Skills Playbook is the practical, step-by-step guide to building Skills that compound your AI productivity. Inside: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe clean mental model, Skills, CLAUDE.md, and memory, and which to use when.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour first working Skill in under twenty minutes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe four signature projects from Books 1 and 2, rebuilt as reusable Skills.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to connect a Skill to outside data with MCP - calendars, spreadsheets, document stores - without writing developer-grade code.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to share a Skill with one teammate, twelve teammates, or thirty regulated clients with strict scoping.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 ready-to-use SKILL.md templates - for personal productivity, content, freelance work, and compliance, included as Appendix A.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is for the reader who finished Book 1, Book 2, or both and for the reader who came directly here because they already use Claude Code daily and want to stop re-typing the same context. Either way, you'll leave with a working Skills library and a habit of building on it.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883248173207,"sku":"9798259142565","price":841.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798259142565.webp?v=1781100532","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-claude-skills-playbook-extend-claude-code-with-custom-skills-and-mcp-20-ready-to-use-templates-inside-9798259142565","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}