Feb 24
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Claude Skills (aka Agent Skills) is one of the most powerful advancements in AI recently. It's beautifully simple, yet it gives agents so much power, flexibility, and context efficiency. But what if you don't want to be limited to the Anthropic ecosystem? What if you want to use different models, run things locally, build your own agents, or create custom workflows without relying on Claude Code or Claude Desktop? That's exactly what I'll show you in this video. I'll walk you through building skills into a Pydantic AI agent, but this pattern works with anything. I'll show you a few practical examples, but more importantly focus on how you can bring literally any skill into any AI agent with this template I have as a resource for you. We'll also cover the full production pipeline: implementation, validation with evals, and monitoring with Logfire. By the end, you'll have a reusable skill system that saves thousands of tokens and works across any framework you choose. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Pydantic AI documentation (my favorite agent framework): https://tinyurl.com/pydantic-ai - Logfire (Pydantic's observability platform, super easy to use): https://tinyurl.com/pydantic-logfire ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - The Dynamous Agentic Coding Course is now FULLY released - learn how to build reliable and repeatable systems for AI coding: https://dynamous.ai/agentic-coding-course - Full source code for this tutorial: https://github.com/coleam00/custom-agent-with-skills - Anthropic's Agent Skills best practices: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/best-practices ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 0:00 The Power and Simplicity of Skills 3:13 Masterclass on Skills (+ Claude Guide) 5:54 The Strategy - Build Skills into ANY AI Agent 9:38 Live Demo of my Pydantic AI Skills Agent 12:10 High Level Code Dive - How it Works 17:33 Build Your Own Custom Skills 18:41 Testing Agent Reliability with Evals 22:25 Production Observability with Logfire 23:55 Wrap-up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join me as I push the limits of what is possible with AI. I'll be uploading videos weekly - at least every Wednesday at 7:00 PM CDT!