Hydra tutorial series — Part 4: Skills
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New to Claude Skills in general?
This part dives straight into the Hydra-specific skill families. If you'd rather first learn what a Claude Skill even is, how the frontmatter works, and when you'd write one yourself, take the public Claude Skills tutorial series (three short modules, ~40 minutes). From here on we assume you know the basics.
The previous parts were about what Hydra does. This part is about how: the skills that let the personas do their job. By the end you'll know which skills the automated pipeline (the "Hydra factory") runs and which ones you call yourself as a human, you'll know the five families, and you'll be able to judge when a new skill is worth writing.