Andrew Ng just released a 2-hour course on building agentic skills from scratch with Anthropic: • 00:00 – How to build agent skills with Claude • 22:32 – Claude pre-built skills for AI agents • 41:07 – Agentic skills vs tools, MCP, subagents • 01:06:06 – Skills for long-running... agents This 2-hour watch will replace 10 paid courses on building agents, by Anthropic themselves. Watch it today, then read how to build self-improving agentic systems in the article below.show more

breaking down the exact timestamps for things like pre built skills and mcp subagent design is a total timesaver for deeper dives

Yeah. This is the full guide for building agentic systems skills. Real alpha here

Agentic skills vs tools its the most important part in my opinion

Yeah, building agentic skills is one of the most important parts of the whole agent architecture.

timestamps really matter here thanks for adding them started watching from 22:32

you are welcome mate, happy its useful for you !

@0xCodez sounds cool! ngl, the whole agentic skills vs tools bit at 41:07 is what I'm most curious about. always wondered how they differentiate in practice.

missing Andrew Ng talking about AI agents would be a mistake. definitely watching this tonight

ngl the timestamp structure telling me this was made for people who pause every 5 min to go build it immediately thats a different breed fr 🔥

Skills vs tools is the practical part. That distinction changes how you design longer running agent workflows

haven't seen a breakdown like this before the distinction between agentic skills and tooling is finally getting some airtime. anthropic's approach could be the linchpin that makes all the other AI agents actually useful.

the pattern is the durable part. agentic loops don't care where the model runs. swapping claude for qwen 2.5 locally after is a config edit, not a rewrite.

2-hour course on agent skills from scratch is clean theory. Mine still invent tool params the moment the skill description exceeds a few hundred tokens

2小时能把这些讲清楚也挺狠的

Since we frequently use Claude Code to write articles, we’ve seen so much AI-generated text that we compiled a checklist for identifying it—and decided to package that into a Skill.

The real skill gap isn't building agents, it's knowing which business workflow is worth automating first. Most people skip that step entirely.

Andrew Ng + Anthropic = curso que vale oro. Agentic skills es lo que separa a los que usan IA de los que construyen con IA. Si no estás aprendiendo esto, ya vas tarde 🚀

The skills vs tools section is probably the highest leverage part for long running agents

Spot on. As agents scale with MCP and subagents, context retention is the real bottleneck. Persistent memory is just as critical as the skills themselves for long-running tasks.

Is inspectable memory where you can inspect/edit/delete/update possible somehow?

Probably one of the highest signal-to-noise free AI courses out there

41:07 is the part to jump to. skills vs tools trips everyone up and the short version is skills are instructions the model loads when it needs them, tools are functions it calls.

That's fantastic news! Andrew Ng is a legend. This course is going to be so valuable.

Great perspective — we cover this kind of AI development daily at @@notreal_dreams

skills as reusable units makes sense. i’d still want the course to show what happens when two skills disagree on state

Andrew Ng breaking down long-running agents and MCP for free While Twitter buys $500 prompt courses, the actual pioneer of AI hands out the blueprint for self-improving loops. The 41:07 mark changes how you orchestrate Claude forever Watch it, then build

but how many people finish 2hr courses tho my watch history is a graveyard of 47min-watched tutorials 💀

9 out of 10 users never ran an actual agent system damn

been waiting for a proper skills breakdown, this looks like it bro

You got a link to the YouTube video?

skills beat random prompts

2 hours of andrew ng is just 10 paid courses compressed into one really calm voice my man speaks at 0.5x speed naturally so youre already watching it at 1x

Nice! I’ve been using Claude heavily for structuring workflows too. Just released “Continuity” — a skill that saves context between sessions so you don’t lose the thread. Might be useful for your rally planning next time.

This is an excellent one. It is definitely worth the few hours you invest.

The skills vs tools distinction at 41:07 is the part most will skip and it's the most important. Skills are composable across tasks while tools are one-off integrations. Get that architecture wrong early and you rebuild everything at 10+ agents.

@grok is this video available on YouTube as well ?