Claude Skills for Teams

Claude skills for teams are SKILL.md files you commit to a shared repository so that Claude behaves the same way for every developer on the project. One person writes down how your team formats pull requests, writes documentation or plans work, and Claude applies it identically for everyone — no verbal agreements, no reminders during review.

The difference shows up at onboarding and at review. A new developer clones the repository and immediately inherits the team's commit style, issue structure and code conventions instead of spending a week discovering unwritten rules. Review loses an entire class of comments — "we don't write it that way here" — because the code arrives already matching the standard.

Because skills live in git next to the code, they are versioned like any other file: a rule can be argued in a pull request, reverted, or branched. That is the practical difference from settings kept in each person's local interface, which never transfer between people and vanish when someone changes machines.

The collection below covers planning, task orchestration between agents, and documentation — the areas where team members drift apart from each other most often.

Skills in this collection

FAQ

How do I share a Claude Code skill with my team?

Put the skill folder containing SKILL.md into the project repository — usually under .claude/skills/ — and commit it. Claude Code picks up skills from the repository for everyone who has cloned it, so there is nothing to distribute or install separately.

How is a skill different from instructions in CLAUDE.md?

CLAUDE.md is always active and describes the project as a whole. A skill is a self-contained procedure for one kind of task: it loads when that task comes up and stays out of the context window the rest of the time. In practice teams use both — project rules in CLAUDE.md, repeatable procedures as skills.

All Claude Code skills