Workshop

Build & Ship Agent Skills for Your Product

Emmanuel Paraskakis

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Products

Skills as a Product for Agents. Ship to a New AI Distribution Channel in 4 hours

Skills are not just Markdown files that automate your day. They are a new way to package, distribute, and ship product experiences inside AI tools.

This workshop takes you from "Skills as Automation" to "Skills as a Product".

Turn your APIs, SDKs, CLIs, docs, and MCP servers into tutorials, onboarding flows, process libraries, product demos, and sales enablement. Publishing a Skill places your product inside Claude, Vercel, and the agent environments where users already work.

In four hours, you'll build and ship a full Skill for your product.

You'll see what's inside a real Skill, what good and risky look like, and how to spot malicious or unethical patterns. Then you'll create a Skill for your own product or idea, choosing from documentation, onboarding, process delivery, or marketing.

You'll test it against real prompts, improve how it triggers, package it on GitHub, install it, and ship it where agents can find it.

You leave with a working Skill, a clearer view of where Skills belong on your product roadmap, and a practical sense of what ethical Skills look like.

Walk in: you've heard about Skills.

Walk out: your product Skill is built, tested, installed, and shipping where agents live.

What you’ll learn

Skills as a Product

  • What are useful Skills and where to find them

  • What makes a Skill secure

  • Valuable use cases

  • Required and optional fields in Skill.md

  • Progressive disclosure and how it works

  • Additional components and files

  • Tools that help build Skills

  • Skill scope and when to break a long Skill up

  • What influences Skill usability

  • How do directories scan the Skills you submit for safety

  • What are risky behaviors that should be flagged

  • Tools you can use to scan Skills

  • What directories should you care about

  • How to submit your Skill or Plugin for approval

  • Promoting your Skill as a product

Workshop agenda

  • Optional: Introductions

    Join early to introduce yourself, meet other participants, and check that your environment is ready before the workshop starts.

  • What's inside a Skill

    Install useful Skills and see how they're built. Explore the directories where popular Skills can be found. Learn what good, sloppy, and malicious skills look like before you build one.

  • Build a skill for your product

    Pick a use case: documentation, onboarding, process delivery, or marketing. Generate a Skill from your own product or idea. Iterate on real prompts until it triggers reliably.

  • Ship your Skill where agents look

    Publish your Skill to a public directory. Compare directories on safety and reach. Plan promotion and discovery. Add tests so it keeps working as your product evolves.

  • Optional: Q&A and Next Steps

    Demo your skill if it's ready. Open mic for questions. Help available if you're still shipping.

Learn directly from Emmanuel

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3x VP Product (Apiary, Swagger, Oracle) | 1.3M APIs | Agent-ready APIs & MCP

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Who this workshop is for

  • Product Managers & Ecosystem Leads who want agents to use their product.

  • Engineers & Technical Leaders who want to make sure agents consistently and safely reach their Developer tools.

  • Founders & Entrepreneurs who want maximum AI reach for their ideas and methodologies.

Prerequisites

  • Basic AI familiarity

    Understanding context and how to prompt a model

  • A paid Claude subscription and access to Claude Code

    Optionally OpenAI Codex or Cursor

  • Optionally, Node.js installed

    Use of npx to add and publish Skills

What's included

Emmanuel Paraskakis

Live sessions

Learn directly from Emmanuel Paraskakis in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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Where to find & install Skills

Which directories have the best, secure Skills that you can use in AI tools.

What a useful, secure Skill looks like

Understand the components of a Skill beyond simple Markdown. Know the risks that malicious Skills can introduce.

Use cases for Skills in your product

Skills are useful on their own as instructions or documentation as well as to wrap and enhance your developer tools.

How to build and distribute Skills as part of your product

Learn the framework to productize and go to market with agent Skills.

Frequently asked questions

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$499

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Jul 11
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