# Anthropic Skills API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-skills-api/  
**Provider:** Anthropic — https://apis.io/providers/anthropic/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/skills/create-skill

Anthropic Skills API is one of 24 APIs that [Anthropic](https://apis.io/providers/anthropic/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Agents, Artificial Intelligence, and Skills. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Create and manage custom Agent Skills. Skills are filesystem-based directories of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads on demand via progressive disclosure. Workspace-wide sharing. The Skills API is currently in beta and requires the skills-2025-10-02 beta header.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/skills/create-skill
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anthropic/refs/heads/main/openapi/anthropic-skills-api-openapi.yml

## Other Anthropic APIs (12)

- [Anthropic Messages API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-messages-api/)
- [Anthropic Models API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-models-api/)
- [Anthropic Message Batches API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-message-batches-api/)
- [Anthropic Files API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-files-api/)
- [Anthropic Token Counting API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-token-counting-api/)
- [Anthropic Claude Code Analytics API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-claude-code-analytics-api/)
- [Anthropic Agents API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-agents-api/)
- [Anthropic Api Keys API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-api-keys-api/)
- [Anthropic Cost API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-cost-api/)
- [Anthropic Environments API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-environments-api/)
- [Anthropic Events API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-events-api/)
- [Anthropic Organization API](https://apis.io/apis/anthropic/anthropic-organization-api/)

## Tags

Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Skills

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