16th October 2025
Skills actually came out of a prototype I built demonstrating that Claude Code is a general-purpose agent :-)
It was a natural conclusion once we realized that bash + filesystem were all we needed
— Barry Zhang, Anthropic
Recent articles
- The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting - 4th September 2026
- OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis - 4th September 2026
- Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026