Claude Cowork Skills: How They Work and Where They Break
A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that Claude loads when a task matches. Here is the structure, the token cost, and the sync gap nobody mentions.
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A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that Claude loads when a task matches. Here is the structure, the token cost, and the sync gap nobody mentions.
Anthropic's 11 open-source Cowork plugins, what a plugin bundles, where hooks and sub-agents actually run, and the one thing no plugin can start on its own.
What a Claude Skill is, how SKILL.md and progressive disclosure work, where Skills run across claude.ai, Claude Code, and the API, and where they stop.
Claude runs steps on request and on a schedule — but it has no event triggers, so nothing starts when work arrives. What Skills, connectors, and Cowork really do.