In the last episode, Claude got access to your inbox, but you were still typing the same instructions every morning. This episode fixes that for good. Watch Jason build his first Claude skill, an email triage routine that summarizes unread mail from the last 24 hours, sorts it into needs reply, can wait, or ignore, and auto-drafts professional replies straight to Gmail.
You'll see the difference between a prompt (a one-off request) and a skill (a procedure you write once and reuse), how to create a skill using the built-in skill creator, the trigger phrases and slash commands that launch it, and how to iterate on a skill the same way you'd coach a new assistant. By the end you'll have a working triage skill and a simple assignment to capture your next one. The episode closes with a teaser: skills can run on a schedule, so this routine can fire at 6 a.m. every day without you.
Your First Claude Skill: Email Triage in One Prompt
Tired of typing the same email instructions every morning? Build a reusable Claude skill once and trigger your whole triage routine with a single prompt. No code required.
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In a previous video, Claude got access to your inbox, but every morning you're having to type the same prompt and paragraph of instructions. This one's pretty short, but over time it's probably going to become more and more robust as it goes to look at your email and do all the triage you want it to do. That was a simplified example. Today we're going to fix that permanently.You're going to build your first skill, and from now on the whole routine will be one prompt.So what is a skill, actually? Let's go under Customize and we'll see Skills. I can create skills through the skill creator, but l…
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