# Claude Skills > Claude Skills: 6 free modules that walk you through What Are Claude Skills? Turn One On and Watch It Work, How to Install a Custom Skill in Claude… Source: https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/course/claude-skills · Updated 2026-10-13 · Free from Stepthrough (https://learn.ynteractive.com) Updated October 13, 2026 Claude Skills: 6 free modules that walk you through What Are Claude Skills? Turn One On and Watch It Work, How to Install a Custom Skill in Claude (Upload a Skill .zip), Install Skills in Claude Code: the Skills Folder and a Plugin Marketplace and Make Every Claude Document On-Brand with a Brand Guidelines Skill, and more, using Claude and Claude Code. Each module is a real project. You watch a step, do it yourself in a practice copy of the tool, and it checks your work before moving on. It is free, and no experience is needed. **In the course:** Claude Skills is part of [Part 4 · Claude for Everyday Work](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/course/part-4-claude-for-everyday-work) of the [free Stepthrough course](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/course). ## 6 modules - [What Are Claude Skills? Turn One On and Watch It Work](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/what-are-claude-skills): Learn what a Claude skill is, switch on the setting skills need, turn on an example skill in Customize, and watch Claude use its Excel and Word skills on its own. - [How to Install a Custom Skill in Claude (Upload a Skill .zip)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/install-a-custom-claude-skill): Upload your own skill to Claude as a .zip, check that it’s switched on, see what’s inside its SKILL.md, and watch Claude use it to write a landscaping quote your way. - [Install Skills in Claude Code: the Skills Folder and a Plugin Marketplace](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/install-skills-in-claude-code): See what a SKILL.md looks like, learn where Claude Code keeps skills, install Anthropic's document skills from a plugin marketplace, and watch Claude use them on its own. - [Make Every Claude Document On-Brand with a Brand Guidelines Skill](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/claude-brand-guidelines-skill): Build a brand skill for a small flower shop by chatting with Claude: colors, fonts, logo placement and voice. Then ask for a proposal and a social post and watch both… - [Claude's Excel Skill: Turn a Messy Export into a Clean Workbook](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/claude-excel-skill-messy-export-to-clean-workbook): Upload a messy sales export to Claude and get back a clean Excel workbook with a Data tab, a Summary tab built with formulas, and a chart, thanks to Claude's built-in… - [Build Your Own Claude Skill with the Skill Creator: A Weekly Report Template](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/build-your-own-claude-skill-with-skill-creator): Turn a report you make every week into a skill. Claude’s skill creator interviews you, drafts the skill, tests it and packages it. 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You do the same thing on the right, in a practice copy of the real tool. Get it right and it moves on. Nothing touches your real accounts until you're ready to build it for real. [Start learning free](https://learn.ynteractive.com/)