Anthropic Agent Skills for Network Automation: Build Your First SKILL.md
If you’ve been using Claude and wondering how it suddenly knows how to generate a perfectly formatted PowerPoint or fill out a PDF form without you explaining anything, that’s Agent Skills doing the work. It’s one of Anthropic’s newer features and it’s surprisingly underused by the network automation community, which is a shame because it’s genuinely well-suited for what we do. In this post I’m going to explain what Skills are, how they actually work under the hood, and then build a real network automation skill from scratch, one that gives Claude the procedural knowledge to query NetBox, pull device configs, and follow your team’s runbook steps, automatically, every time, without you explaining it in every single prompt....