anthropics claude-agent-sdk-demos
OFFICIALLABSCO SUMMARY
Three of the six are demo-specific: action-creator and listener-creator build one-click email actions and event-driven listeners for the repository's in-development email agent demo, and executive-briefing turns research output into a leadership-ready summary, matching the pattern of the repo's research-agent demo. The other three — docx, pdf, and xlsx — are general document-handling skills for creating, editing, and analyzing Word, PDF, and spreadsheet files, and aren't tied to any one demo.
This suits someone exploring what the Claude Agent SDK can do, or wanting a working reference for a specific pattern — a chat UI over WebSocket, a multi-agent research pipeline, one-click actions triggered from a chat interface. It is a worse fit if you want skills to drop into a real product: the repository's own warning says not to deploy these at scale, and half of the six only make sense alongside a specific demo you would also need to adapt.
READ THE FULL ANALYSIS
Anthropic's own warning is explicit, not implied. The README states plainly that this repository holds demo applications intended for local development only, and that they should not be deployed to production or used at scale — a caveat worth carrying to every skill here, not only the email ones.
WHAT'S INSIDE
6 showing · 6 totalNothing else to set up — install it and go.
action-creator
A chore you do over and over in email becomes a button in the chat window: you click it, it runs, and the details that change each time are asked for as you go.
docx
Word documents, read out as plain text, written from scratch, or edited with tracked changes so the other side can see exactly what you altered.
executive-briefing
The one page an executive will actually read — the conclusion first, then the findings behind it, what they mean for the business, and who has to do what by when.
listener-creator
Email that handles itself: a watcher sits on the inbox and, when something matches — an urgent note from your manager, a delivery update, another newsletter — it does what you told it to without being asked.
Gets the text and tables back out of a PDF, and builds, merges, splits or locks one when what you need is a new file rather than its contents.
xlsx
A spreadsheet somebody else can audit: open any cell and you can see where its number came from, instead of a value that was typed in once and forgotten.
HOW TO GET IT
npx skills add anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-demosnpx skills add anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-demos --skill <name> --full-depthPick the skill name from the Skills tab — each entry there installs independently.