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24 jun 2026
Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead
Agents have intelligence, capabilities and tools.
But without expertise & business context, they can't do relevant work.
Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag, engineers at Anthropic, took the stage at the AI Engineer Code Summit and shared:
“Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead”.
Skills are how you encode expertise, context and business knowledge into AI.
For the past few weeks, Carlos and I have been publishing a series of Skills guides for the coworking industry at Coworkings AI.
The goal isn't just to hand you a Skill that works. It's to help you understand how it works, so you can edit, expand and adapt it to your specific use case.
This is what we've published so far:
🔹 What are Claude Skills?
https://coworkings.ai/p/coworkings-ai-008#claude-skills-how-ai-agents-learn-t
🔹 A Six-Step Skill Guide to turning Member Feedback into a Prioritised Action Plan
How to go from raw customer help-desk feedback → structured insight → prioritised actions.
https://coworkings.ai/p/coworkings-ai-009#a-six-step-guide-to-turning-member-
🔹 The Rise of Agentic UX: How Nexudus' CLI and Agent Skill Unlock End-to-End AI Workflow
https://coworkings.ai/p/coworkings-ai-011
🔹 A Step-by-Step Guide to Building an Inbound Sales Skill with Claude
Handles inbound leads, enriches and qualifies them, recommends the right product, and generates a SPIN demo script and email outreach draft.
https://coworkings.ai/p/coworkings-ai-010
🔹 How to Build an AI Lead Qualification Workflow from Your Tour Booking Form in Nexudus
https://coworkings.ai/p/coworkings-ai-013
Each guide covers the main parts of a Skill and the outcome it delivers.
The series is designed for coworking and flex space operators, but applies to any industry.
If you're thinking about how AI can actually work inside your company, this is for you.
Is there a specific workflow you want to automate? Let me know.



