Claude Skills - A Mental Model for Builders

Hosted by Amir Feizpour and Mohsin Iqbal

Fri, Mar 20, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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AI Agents for Pragmatic Builders - Claude Code, LangGraph, n8n
Amir Feizpour, PhD
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What you'll learn

What Agent Skills Really Are

A conceptual breakdown of skills beyond surface-level documentation.

The Skill Lifecycle

How skills are discovered, loaded, expanded into prompts, scoped, and executed.

Reasoning and Behavior Shaping

How Claude integrates skills into its reasoning process and decision-making.

Mental Models for Agent Design

Frameworks that make complex agent systems easier to reason about and debug.

Why this topic matters

As agentic systems grow more powerful, understanding their internal mechanics becomes critical. Treating skills as opaque abstractions limits both reliability and creativity. This session helps practitioners develop the mental models needed to design, debug, and extend agent systems with confidence; skills that transfer beyond Claude to agentic AI more broadly.

You'll learn from

Amir Feizpour

Founder @ Aggregate Intellect

Amir Feizpour is the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aggregate Intellect building a generative business brain for service and science based companies. Amir has built and grown a global community of 5000+ AI practitioners and researchers gathered around topics in AI research, engineering, product development, and responsibility. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada. Amir held a research position at University of Oxford conducting experiments on quantum computing resulting in high profile publications and patents. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto. Amir also serves the AI ecosystem as an advisor at MaRS Discovery District, works with several startups as fractional chief AI officer, and engages with a wide range of community audiences (business executives to hands-on developers) through training and educational programs. Amir leads Aggregate Intellect’s R&D via several academic collaborations.

Mohsin Iqbal

Sr. MLE @ Alethia AI

Mohsin Iqbal is a product-driven Senior AI/ML Engineer at ALETHIA AI. He builds and operates machine learning systems, with expertise in GenAI, agentic systems, LLM agents, large language models, and computer vision.

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