Claude Code 201: Skills, Plugins, MCPs

Hosted by Avthar Sewrathan

Mon, Jan 19, 2026

5:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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What you'll learn

Add power user best practices to your workflow with Plugins

Build with customizations like Ralph Wiggum, Compound Engineering, and official Anthropic plugins.

Teach Claude specialized knowledge with Skills

Create your own Agent Skills and ship with pre-built skills for frontend design, web app testing, and more.

Connect Claude to external tools and apps with MCPs

Connect to your browser (Playwright), database (MongoDB, Postgres), infrastructure (Vercel, Cloudflare) and more.

Why this topic matters

Using Claude Code without Skills, Plugins, and MCPs is like using an iPhone without apps: it works, but you're missing what makes it powerful. Adding these to your workflow will help you make progress faster, with higher quality code and fewer mistakes. You'll walk away knowing exactly what, when, and how to use each, putting you on the path to becoming a Claude Code power user.

You'll learn from

Avthar Sewrathan

AI Product Leader & AI Coding Educator (300K+ views on Claude Code)

Avthar builds AI products and teaches developers how to use them. He's shipped AI and developer tools that have helped tens of thousands of developers as a Product Leader at MongoDB and Timescale, and his YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@avtharai) has become one of the top resources for learning Claude Code.

His videos on Claude Code have been watched more than 300,000 times and viewers have said its "the best resource for Claude Code usage", "worth its weight in gold", and "the best video on any AI coding tool, period".

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