How to Use Agent Skills
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The team behind Claude Code's agent skills shares lessons on building, testing, and organizing skills — and the concept is converging across the entire AI stack, from hardcore developers to mainstream tools like Notion. Whether you're orchestrating multi-agent teams or just trying to get an AI to reliably do one task your way, skills represent a shift from ad hoc prompting to reusable, repeatable capabilities. In the headlines: Claude Cowork gets mobile control via Dispatch, China's government grows wary of Open Claw, and Andy Jassy sees AI doubling AWS revenue.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, how the team that designed agent skills uses agent skills, |
| 0:06.0 | and before that in the headlines, you can now control Claude Co-work from your phone. |
| 0:12.0 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:23.8 | All right friends, quick announcements before we dive in. |
| 0:29.4 | First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitzy, AI, UC, and Mercury. |
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| 0:55.0 | and is basically the best way to get access to the links that I talk about |
| 1:00.1 | in the show. Again, you can get that all on AIdealybrief.aI. And with that other way, let's dive in. |
| 1:07.3 | One of the interesting ways that you can tell what's really important to AI builders and people on the front lines is when there's a story that on the surface looks fairly small, but which is getting a disproportionate share of the conversation in AI circles. |
| 1:22.5 | Our first story today is exactly that. On the surface, it's just a simple new feature for Claude Co-work. In this case, |
| 1:29.2 | it's called Dispatch, and it allows you to bring your Claude Co-work with you on the go. That said, |
| 1:34.4 | based on the reaction, 3 million views on the announcement tweet, 9,000 bookmarks, this one is a big |
| 1:40.3 | deal to people. In the wake of OpenClaw, companies in the agent space have either been a releasing their own versions of OpenClaw, that was obviously the topic of our show yesterday, or they've been slowly adding the important features of OpenClaught to their existing product suites, which has been, of course, Anthropics approach. A couple weeks ago, we got remote control for Claude code, which allowed users to initiate Claude sessions on their computer and then carry them onto their mobile devices where they could control them doing whatever it was that they were doing. Basically coding from the gym. Dispatch is basically that but for co-work. The co-work sessions are still hosted in a sandbox on your computer, meaning Claude still has the same access and protections. However, you can now kick off a co-work session and then continue monitoring progress and providing approvals while out and about. Anthropic described the feature as like having a walkie-talkie for communicating with Claude. Co-work developer, Felix Rysberg wrote, it feels pretty magical to give Claude a mission on my computer and get occasional updates like creating reports from internal dashboards or finding me a better seat on my next flight. Everything Claude can do on |
| 2:37.6 | your computer, files, browser tools are reachable from wherever you go. First impressions are good. |
| 2:43.5 | Daniel San writes, testing co-work from my phone. The walkie-talkie analogy is spot on. Your phone |
| 2:48.4 | becomes a remote control that talks to Claude running on your desktop. One more to the weekend testing list. Stay tuned, post and coming on how it works. |
| 2:55.7 | Ethan Mollock writes, after using it a bit, Claude Co-Work dispatch covers 90% of what I was trying |
| 3:00.9 | to use OpenClaw for, but feels far less likely to upload my entire drive to a malware site. |
| 3:06.1 | He continues what I like better, easy, much more stable and safe, existing connectors mean |
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