Agents and Agent Skills - A Practical Walkthrough

Part of Summer of AI Building: Your AI Portfolio in 4 Steps

Hosted by Anshumani Ruddra

Tue, Jul 14, 2026

10:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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AI Accelerator for Executives and Entrepreneurs
Anshumani Ruddra
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What you'll learn

Understand what an agent really is

See past the jargon to how an agent works and how MCP lets it reach your tools and data.

Learn what a skill is and how to use one

Walk through the anatomy of a SKILL.md and install a skill from skills.sh for Claude or Codex.

Build your own skill

Turn a task you repeat into a reusable skill, and run a quick check to confirm it works.

Why this topic matters

Agents, MCPs, skills. The words do more to gatekeep than to explain. Once you know what each one actually is, you stop guessing and start building your own skills instead of solving the same problem twice. We keep it concrete and do it inside the tools you would actually use: Codex, Claude Code, and Cowork. No prior setup and no other lesson needed to follow along.

You'll learn from

Anshumani Ruddra

Product Super IC at Google with 22+ years crafting experiences and blockbuster products

I have spent the last 22+ years building and teaching: first as an author of children's books, then as a game designer on some of the world's largest social games, and then as an entrepreneur and product leader across various global consumer tech businesses.

I'm an OG course instructor on Maven, teaching product builders for a decade+, and I'm part of the PM Faculty at Google. I believe the future belongs to the "Super IC" - individuals who leverage AI to drastically increase their output and as a force multiplier for their expertise. My teaching style is highly hands-on and practical; we will vibe-code, experiment, break things, and build working systems together.

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