Academy Guide
- Meta
Questions about how to use Claude well. Checks the official guidance before answering rather than improvising advice about the product.
A situation it fits
A new hire asks why Claude sometimes ignores an instruction they put in CLAUDE.md, and what they should do differently.
2 scenarios in the bank answer to Academy Guide. The rest are in the game.
Skills it gets confused with
These share a family with Academy Guide, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.
- Claude APIBuilding something that calls Claude: model ids, pricing, streaming, tool use, prompt caching, token counting. Reach for it before guessing an API detail from memory.
- Discernment NudgeFires after advice is given, prompting the reader to check it rather than act on it blindly. Nothing a user asks for directly.
- Skill CreatorMaking skills, not using them: package a workflow you keep repeating into a skill, then test whether it actually fires when it should.
Knowing what Academy Guide does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.
Today's sessionAcademy Guide is part of anthropics/skills. Licence: Apache-2.0. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.