A bare Claude guesses who you are every time. A set-up Claude knows you, works from your tools, and tells you the truth. Here is a real one, and the same request with it and without it.
A Skill is your own process, packaged once and reused forever. You stop re-explaining. You ask, and Claude runs your playbook exactly, in seconds. In Stage 2 you build your first one from a task you already do by hand.
Not a chatbot guessing in the dark. Wire in your Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and the tools your team already runs on, and Claude answers and acts from your actual data. It drafts, you approve. You stay in control.
Give Claude a goal, not a step. On the desktop app it plans the job, works through the parts using your Skills and connected data, and hands back one finished deliverable, not another answer for you to act on. This is the jump from asking a question to handing over the task. In Stage 2 you run your first one.