Building Skills for Claude — Complete Guide

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6.2 Power Patterns in Practice

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Power Patterns in Practice

Real examples of advanced skill techniques

Multi-Step Workflow Example

Multi-Step Workflow

Use Case: Project Sprint Planning
Trigger: "help me plan a sprint"
Steps:
  1. Load current project state from Linear (via MCP)
  2. Analyze team velocity and capacity
  3. Suggest task prioritization
  4. Create tasks in Linear with labels and estimates
Result: Fully planned sprint with created tasks

Each step builds on the previous — research feeds analysis, analysis feeds action. The Skill orchestrates the entire pipeline automatically.

Skill Chaining

Our MCP server gives Claude access to your Linear projects. Our skills teach Claude your team's sprint planning workflows. Together, they enable AI-driven project management.

Build pipelines: a research Skill feeds a writing Skill, which feeds a publishing Skill. Each Skill is simple and focused, but together they handle complex workflows.

Dynamic File References

Dynamic Reference

Before writing queries, study `references/api-patterns.md`
for guidance on rate limiting, pagination patterns,
and error codes.

Lazy Loading

Claude reads the referenced file only when it actually needs that information during execution. This keeps the skill fast for simple tasks while supporting deep knowledge for complex ones.

Practice Tip

Start by converting one of your existing manual workflows into a multi-step Skill. Map out the steps, identify the inputs and outputs of each step, and build the chain incrementally.