Build Your First Claude Skill in Under an Hour

The fastest way to learn Claude Skills is to build one. In this guide we create a meeting-recap assistant that extracts action items, drafts follow-up emails, and logs decisions to your project tracker.

Project Setup

Start with the Claude Skills CLI template. It scaffolds a TypeScript runtime, sample tests, and MCP wiring. Run the bootstrap command and authenticate with your Claude account to generate signing keys automatically.

Coding the Workflow

• Parse meeting transcripts using Claude's structured extraction APIs.
• Map speaker decisions to Jira tasks with the MCP Atlassian connector.
• Generate summary emails using templated Claude Code blocks.

Once tests pass, deploy the skill to the shared registry. Teammates can invoke it instantly inside Claude chats, confident that the automation follows the same steps every time.