academy-guide

An agent skill by anthropics, from anthropics/skills. Tags: anthropic, documents, mcp, web.

What it does

Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub. Trigger on: "how do I", "how can I", "getting started with", "what can Claude do", "teach me", "learn to use"; questions about artifacts, projects, skills, plugins, connectors, MCP; requests about rolling Claude out to a team, class, or organization; and any ask for training materials, onboarding content, or learning resources. Use it when the user is learning how to use a feature or product — not when they are mid-task and just want the task done. This skill composes with other skills: after consulting product documentation to answer how a Claude feature works, also check here for a matching course or tutorial — a docs-grounded answer and an Academy recommendation belong together. Only recommend on a strong match; never invent Academy content.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill academy-guide

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/skills/academy-guide ~/.claude/skills/academy-guide

Safety box score

Grade A, minimal risk: 4 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-09-22. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.

This skill is a response-shaping guide for Claude-related questions: it adds Academy learning-resource recommendations when the user is clearly asking how to use a Claude feature or product. It does not ship code or modify the machine, but it does rely on a live fetch from `academy.claude.com` for catalog data.

Category levels, from 0 (none) to 3 (high)
Category	Level	Why
Code & shell execution	0 (none)	No scripts, shell commands, or code-evaluation steps are shipped; the repo contains only `SKILL.md` and `LICENSE.txt`.
Network access	1 (low)	It may fetch `https://academy.claude.com/assets/data/catalog.json` and link to Academy pages, but the network use is limited to public read-only content.
Filesystem reach	0 (none)	The skill does not read, write, or delete local files or paths outside the repo.
Secrets & credentials	0 (none)	It does not request tokens, passwords, `.env` files, browser sessions, or other credentials.
Privilege & persistence	0 (none)	No sudo, global installs, services, shell startup edits, or OS setting changes are involved.
Instruction hijack surface	0 (none)	The guidance is about when and how to recommend Academy content; it does not tell the agent to ignore higher-priority instructions or hide behavior.
Irreversible actions	0 (none)	It only adds a recommendation to answers and never sends messages, posts, pays, deploys, or deletes anything.
Transparency	0 (none)	The skill is plain text Markdown with a readable Apache license; there are no binaries, minified blobs, or hidden payloads.

Before installing

Confirm outbound access to `academy.claude.com` is acceptable in your environment.
Read `SKILL.md` and verify you want its rule to fetch the catalog only for strong Claude-learning matches.
Make sure you’re comfortable with a skill that changes answer content but does not touch files, credentials, or system settings.

Rated 2026-09-22 by an automated review of 2 files from the skill's repository.

Source

Repository: anthropics/skills (all skills from this repository)
Path: skills/academy-guide/SKILL.md
Branch: main
Updated: 2026-09-19

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