Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-based AI coding assistant. It reads skills from the .claude/skills/ directory.

Skill Paths

Scope	Path
User-level	~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Project-level	.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

Claude Code uses dedicated user and project directories — it does not share .agents/skills/.

Install a Skill

# User-level (default scope is user)
skern skill install code-review --platform claude-code

# Project-level
skern skill install code-review --platform claude-code --scope project

Uninstall a Skill

skern skill uninstall code-review --platform claude-code

Detection

Skern detects Claude Code by the presence of ~/.claude/.

How Skills Work in Claude Code

When Claude Code starts a session, it reads SKILL.md files from the skills directory. Skills become available as capabilities Claude can use during the session — the skill's markdown body serves as instructions Claude follows when the skill is activated.