Teach Claude Something New
You have a task you do the same way every time. Weekly, per client, per project — doesn't matter. Walk Claude through it once, save it as a skill, and never do it manually again. This is how you extend your system beyond the guides on our site.
Before & After
You run a travel agency. Every time a client books a trip that requires a visa, you manually pull up the country's visa requirements, check the client's passport expiry, list the documents they need, and write up a checklist email. It takes 20 minutes each time, and you do it three or four times a week.
It's not hard work — it's just the same work, over and over. An hour a week on something that should take seconds.
You say: "Visa checklist for Sarah Chen, traveling to Brazil." Claude runs your custom skill:
- Pulls Brazil visa requirements
- Checks Sarah's passport expiry from your client sheet
- Generates the full document checklist
- Drafts the email in your voice
Two minutes instead of twenty. And it's your process — not a template from somewhere else.
What You Need
- Claude Desktop installed — follow the setup guide if you haven't yet
- A repeating task — anything you do the same way more than twice
- 15 minutes — to walk through the task once, save it, test it, and refine
Identify the Repeating Task
Think about what you do in your business that feels like the same steps every time. Some examples:
Pick one. It doesn't have to be complex — even a simple 3-step process is worth automating if you do it often.
Walk Claude Through It Once
Do the task with Claude, step by step, as if you're training a new employee. Don't shortcut anything — explain every step in order.
Claude learns by doing it with you. The more detail you give on this first pass, the better the skill will be. Include:
- Where you get the information (which sheet, email, file)
- What decisions you make along the way
- What the final output looks like
- Any exceptions or edge cases ("if the client is international, also check...")
Save It as a Skill
Tell Claude:
Test the Skill
Trigger it right away with a real example:
Watch Claude run through the process. If something is off — a step is missing, the output format isn't right, or it asks for information it should already know — tell Claude what to fix:
You can refine a skill as many times as you want. Most skills take 1–2 rounds of adjustment to get right.
Remember the Pattern
You just learned the skill-creation pattern. It works for anything:
Do it once with Claude
Save it as a skill
Test it
Refine until right
Any time you catch yourself doing the same thing twice, that's a skill waiting to happen. Your Claude setup grows with your business — you're not limited to the guides on our site.
What You've Built
- A custom skill tailored to your exact business process
- A trigger phrase that runs the whole process in seconds
- The knowledge to create more skills whenever you need them
- An extensible system that grows with your business
The best Claude setup isn't the one with the most guides followed — it's the one where every repeating task has been turned into a skill. Now you know how to do that for anything.
What's Next?
SOPs Before You Need Them
Document your processes as written SOPs alongside your skills.
Read the GuideWant help identifying which tasks to turn into skills?
Book a Starter Session (90 min)Or do it yourself — everything on this page is free.
Skill: Teach Claude Something New
What this is for: Walk a small business owner through creating a custom Claude skill for ANY repeating task in their business. This is the generic "make your own skill" guide — it teaches the pattern so users can extend their system beyond the Tsidai library. If they do something more than twice, it should be a skill.
When to use this: When a user asks their AI assistant to help set up this workflow. The user should explicitly authorize use of this skill by referencing this page URL.