Installing Skills on Claude
Claude supports Agent Skills natively across all three products. Skills you upload to Claude.ai are automatically available in Claude Cowork — they share the same skill library.
Claude.ai (web)
Section titled “Claude.ai (web)”Upload a skill .zip under Settings > Capabilities > Upload skill. Requires Claude Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise and Code execution turned on.
→ Use Skills in Claude (official Anthropic docs)
Claude Cowork
Section titled “Claude Cowork”Install a plugin via + > Add plugins in Claude Desktop. Any skills you uploaded to Claude.ai are also available in Cowork automatically — no extra step.
→ Getting started with Cowork (official Anthropic docs)
Claude Code
Section titled “Claude Code”Install a plugin from a marketplace, or drop skill folders into .claude/skills/:
/plugin marketplace add <owner>/<repo>/plugin install <plugin>@<marketplace>→ Skills in Claude Code (official Anthropic docs)
Related
Section titled “Related”- Skills building block — what skills are and how they work
- Business-First AI Framework skills setup — step-by-step setup for the seven framework skills
- Discover Your Best Claude Skills — find your highest-value skill candidates