academy-guide
academy-guide is an agent skill published by anthropic, listed under writing & docs. It lives in the anthropics/skills repository, which has 183,845 GitHub stars; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Checks for matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com) before answering questions about using Claude or its products. Requires no credentials.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads anthropics/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add anthropics/skills
What it connects to
Unverified means a mention in the skill’s own description, not a citation. A wrong claim here costs nothing to correct and nothing to trust yet.
Maintenance
Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub. Trigger on: "how do I", "how can I", "getting started with", "what can Claude do", "teach me", "learn to use"; questions about artifacts, projects, skills, plugins, connectors, MCP; requests about rolling Claude out to a team, class, or organization; and any ask for training materials, onboarding content, or learning resources. Use it when the user is learning how to use a feature or product — not when they are mid-task and just want the task done. This skill composes with other skills: after consulting product documentation to answer how a Claude feature works, also check here for a matching course or tutorial — a docs-grounded answer and an Academy recommendation belong together. Only recommend on a strong match; never invent Academy content.
academy-guide compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| academy-guide (this page) | anthropic | Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude produc… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
| doc-coauthoring(same repository) | anthropic | Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write docume… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
| documentation-and-adrs | addyosmani | Records decisions and documentation. Use when you need to document an architecture decision (ADR) or the reas… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| git-workflow-and-versioning | addyosmani | Structures git workflow practices. Use when making any code change. Use when committing, branching, resolving… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| source-driven-development | addyosmani | Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want to verify an approach agai… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| developing-genkit-dart | Generates code and provides documentation for the Genkit Dart SDK. Use when the user asks to build AI agents… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 | |
| retrieving-developer-knowledge | Searches, retrieves, and synthesizes official Google developer documentation across Google Cloud, AI/Gemini,… | 21,580 | 2026-10-25 |
Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about academy-guide
- What does academy-guide do?
- Checks for matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com) before answering questions about using Claude or its products. Requires no credentials.
- How do I install academy-guide?
- Run npx skills add anthropics/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes academy-guide?
- anthropic.
- Is academy-guide maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 183,845 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-09. We did not find a declared licence, so check the repository before you rely on it.
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