Claude Skills Build Club: Ship Your First AI Skill
Ship a real Claude Skill in one evening 🚀
Claude Skills Build Club is a fast, collaborative, hands-on workshop where you go from “I’ve been meaning to try this…” to “here’s my .skill file, it works.”
In just 2.5 hours, you’ll see real examples, build your first Skill step-by-step, and ship something genuinely useful to your workflow or team, with mentors helping along the way.
👋 What You’ll Learn
Claude Skills let you encode repeatable workflows, knowledge, and tool integrations, like mini automations for your dev life.
You’ll learn how to design, test, and ship one in a single session.
Build ideas include:
📝 Meeting Notes Formatter — turn messy notes into structured templates
🧩 Code Review Checklist — automate reminders for tests, docs, and style
🐞 Bug Triage Skill — structure bug reports and suggest priorities
🧠 Onboarding Knowledge Base — capture team acronyms and SOPs
👨🏻💻 Speakers
Massimo Olivieri
Massimo will introduce SkillKit, a framework that makes SKILL.md a universal standard. His talk will show how developers can use SkillKit to unlock Claude Skills across any agent framework with zero rewrites.
Attendees will learn how to make their skills portable, modular and usable beyond the Claude ecosystem.
Florenz Ertling
Florenz brings a strong blend of AI engineering, automation strategy, and real-world implementation experience. His work focuses on building practical AI agents, designing efficient workflows, and helping teams adopt advanced automation tools. As the creator of the widely-shared walkthrough “Claude Skills – 10x Your AI Coding Workflow,” he offers one of the clearest explanations of skill structure, invocation, and progressive disclosure.
At Build Club, Florenz will share an expanded version of his framework for designing effective Claude Skills, showcasing how to structure, load, and invoke Skills for maximum context efficiency and real developer impact.
Maithri VM
With 20+ years of engineering and product architecture experience, Maithri has built NLP systems, GenAI platforms, semantic search engines, and enterprise-grade AI solutions across cloud, mobile, and large-scale SaaS environments. Her work spans critical ML infrastructure, HCI-focused product design, and building advanced LLM applications for research, conversational agents, and domain-specific intelligence.
At the Claude Skills Build Club, Maithri will present “Building Intelligent Agents with Claude Skills and MCP”, a practical look at how enterprise teams are using Claude’s skill framework and the Model Context Protocol to ship production-ready agents capable of autonomous code execution, progressive task discovery, and multi-tool orchestration. Her session includes a live demo of agent-driven automation solving real business workflows.
Rajath Bail
Rajath is a designer and product builder from Bangalore who’s spent years crafting intuitive workflows and creative tooling. He’s the creator of Hillnote, a markdown-first workspace that now includes native Claude Skill exporting built directly into the product.
At Build Club, Rajath will show how he creates modular, portable Claude Skills and how Hillnote lets you export, mix, match and plug them into different workflows. Attendees will learn how to design interchangeable skills and extend what Claude can do with a clean, repeatable process.
Laimonas Sutkus
Laimonas is the CTO and co-founder of Callsy AI, where he builds AI voice agents and automation tools that streamline real customer conversations. He’s an experienced engineer with a strong background in SaaS, AI, and developer tooling.
At the event, he’ll demo a Claude-powered tool that automatically generates complete OpenAPI specs from a codebase — a practical example of using AI to reliably automate important developer tasks that are essential for correctness and shipping production-grade software. Tools like this are great candidates for what could make a powerful Claude Skill.
🗓 Agenda (2-2.5 hours)
6:00 – 6:10: Welcome & Warm-Up
Kickoff, intros, and how the Build Club works.
6:10 – 6:40
Opening Session: Intro to Claude Skills + Agent-to-Agent Handoff Demo
Host: Sahil Kathpal
AI Product Architect building next-gen developer tools. Ex-Slice, Co-founder of Elemential Labs, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.
Speaker Lightning Sessions
6:40 – 6:55
Florenz Ertling: Designing Effective Claude Skills
An expanded walkthrough of Florenz’s framework for structuring, loading, and invoking Skills for maximum context efficiency and real developer workflows.
6:55 – 7:10
Massimo Olivieri: Introducing SkillKit
How SkillKit turns SKILL.md into a universal standard across agents. Learn how to make Claude Skills portable, modular, and reusable beyond the Claude ecosystem.
7:10 – 7:25
Laimonas Sutkus: Generating OpenAPI Specs with Claude
A live demo of an autonomous Claude-powered tool that produces complete OpenAPI documentation from any codebase, a strong example of automating correctness-critical developer tasks.
7:25 – 7:40
Maithri VM: Building Intelligent Agents with Claude Skills + MCP
A practical look at production agents powered by Skills and MCP. Includes a live demo of autonomous execution, multi-tool orchestration, and workflow automation.
7:40 – 7:55
Rajath Bail: Modular, Interchangeable Claude Skills with Hillnote
How Rajath builds portable, mix-and-match Skills — and how Hillnote exports Skills that plug into any workflow with minimal friction.
8:00 – 8:20
Live Build: Creating a Claude Skill from Scratch
Sahil returns with a hands-on build session showing how to design, structure, and ship a real Skill in under 20 minutes.
8:20 – 8:30
Q&A + Closing Notes
🎯 You’ll Walk Away With
A working
.skillfile ready to usePatterns for references, assets, and workflows
Access to shared Skill examples and the community gallery
Office hours invites and Skill Builder badges
🧰 Bring
Your laptop
A task you’d love to automate
(Optional) Any docs/templates your Skill might reference
🎤 Become a Speaker
Got a bite-sized demo, memorable bug story, or hard-won debugging lesson? We’re opening up 5–7 min lightning talks for community members to share their insights live.
👉 How to apply:
Register for a Speaker Slot during sign-up. Once you do, we’ll reach out via LinkedIn or email to coordinate next steps.
✅ Don’t forget: Add your LinkedIn profile URL in the registration form so we can contact you.
Spots are limited, earlier submissions get priority.
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Spots are limited, this is a hands-on build club, not a lecture.