Beginner SML-403 ⏱ 4 weeks 📚 10 topics

Agent Skills Mastery: Create and Use SKILL.md Certification

Learn Agent Skills from zero — the open SKILL.md format for packaging expertise into portable capabilities for Claude, Claude Code, and any compatible AI agent. Free beginner course.

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What You'll Demonstrate

  • Explain what Agent Skills are and how progressive disclosure keeps agents context-efficient
  • Write valid SKILL.md files that follow the open Agent Skills specification
  • Explain where agents discover skills and how the three-tier loading model works
  • Bundle scripts, references, and assets into a well-organized skill
  • Manually test a skill and build a small query set to check it triggers correctly
  • Publish a skill for a team and keep it portable across agent clients
  • Build five small, working skills covering five distinct jobs a skill can do

Topics Covered by This Exam

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What Are Agent Skills?

45 minutes

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SKILL.md Fundamentals

45 minutes

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Skill Anatomy

30 minutes

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Creating Your First Skill

90 minutes

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Skill Discovery

45 minutes

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Progressive Loading

45 minutes

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Files & Resources

90 minutes

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Testing Skills

75 minutes

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Publishing Skills

60 minutes

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10

Capstone: Build Five Real Skills

240 minutes

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Adaptive Exam Format

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Progressive Difficulty

Questions advance from Easy → Medium → Hard as you proceed through the exam

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Single & Multi Select

Mix of single-answer and multi-answer questions to assess depth of knowledge

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Randomised Bank

Questions are drawn randomly from a larger question bank — no two exams are the same

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Badge & Certificate

Digital badge and printable certificate issued immediately upon passing