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Academy Guide

Academy Guide is Anthropic's agent skill that ends Claude's answers about using Claude with one or two matching Claude Academy courses or tutorials, and only when the match is strong.

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Install Academy Guide

In Claude Code, add Anthropic's skills marketplace

Terminal
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

Then install the academy-guide plugin

Terminal
/plugin install academy-guide@anthropic-agent-skills

Or install only this skill, for any agent, with the skills CLI

Terminal
npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill academy-guide

Or paste this into your coding agent: Install the agent skill academy-guide from github.com/anthropics/skills. A skill can include scripts that run on your computer, so read its source first.

What Academy Guide does

Academy Guide is Anthropic's skill for pointing people to Claude Academy (academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub of courses, tutorials and use cases. It loads when someone asks how to use Claude or a Claude product (how do I, getting started with, what can Claude do), asks about artifacts, projects, skills, plugins, connectors or MCP, or wants training or onboarding material for a team, class or organization.

With Academy Guide loaded, Claude answers the question first, then adds at most two Academy items, usually one, each with a one-sentence description. It recommends only on a strong match, meaning the person wants to learn a feature, not finish a task in progress. When the match is weak, it says nothing about Academy. Items that need an Academy sign-in are marked as such.

Academy Guide holds no list of courses. Claude fetches the Academy catalog, a JSON file on academy.claude.com, once per conversation and copies item links from it exactly, treating the file as data rather than instructions. If the catalog cannot be fetched or is out of date, Claude names no specific course and points to a product hub (Claude, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, AI Fluency or the developer platform) or the resources library instead.

When to use Academy Guide

  • You ask Claude how a feature such as projects, skills or connectors works and want a course to go deeper.
  • You are rolling Claude out to a team or a class and need onboarding material.
  • You want Claude's learning links to point to real Academy pages, never made-up ones.

When to pick something else

  • You use a different assistant, such as ChatGPT or Gemini: every link points to courses about Claude products.

Which agents Academy Guide works in

Anthropic documents Academy Guide for Claude Code, Claude API. The open skills CLI also installs it into 78 agents, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode (we listed it with the CLI on October 1, 2026). See where each agent looks for skills.

Academy Guide is about Claude itself: it recommends Claude Academy material for questions about Claude products, so it only makes sense in Claude. It needs web access to fetch the Academy catalog.

Academy Guide license

Academy Guide is published under Apache-2.0.

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