This commit completes Phase 1 and Phase 2 (Notebook 1) of the Skills
Cookbook implementation.

## Key Features

### Infrastructure
- Created comprehensive project structure with notebooks/, sample_data/,
  custom_skills/, and outputs/ directories
- Added requirements.txt with anthropic SDK 0.69.0 (local whl)
- Created .env.example with required configuration
- Implemented file_utils.py with Files API helper functions
- Added .gitignore to exclude internal docs and generated files

### Notebook 1: Introduction to Skills (COMPLETE ✅)
- Full working examples for Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF generation
- All three file types tested and working successfully:
  - Excel with charts: ~2 minutes
  - PowerPoint (2 slides + chart): 1m18s
  - PDF (simple receipt): 42.3s
- Comprehensive troubleshooting section covering 5 common issues
- Clear timing expectations throughout

### Files API Integration
- Fixed multiple API issues:
  - Correct methods: download() and retrieve_metadata()
  - BinaryAPIResponse uses .read() not .content
  - FileMetadata uses .size_bytes not .size
- All file downloads working with proper helper functions
- Default overwrite=True for better tutorial UX

### Documentation
- README.md with comprehensive quick start guide
- CLAUDE.md with 8 development gotchas and solutions
- skills_cookbook_plan.md tracking all implementation progress
- Claude Code hooks for environment verification and safety

### Sample Data
- 4 realistic financial datasets (CSV and JSON)
- Budget template, financial statements, portfolio holdings,
  quarterly metrics

## Testing Status
All core functionality tested and working:
- ✅ Environment setup
- ✅ Skills discovery
- ✅ Excel creation and download
- ✅ PowerPoint creation and download
- ✅ PDF creation and download

## Next Steps
- Notebook 2: Financial Applications (pending)
- Notebook 3: Custom Skills Development (pending)

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- Created comprehensive notebook structure with 5 major sections
- Added setup and data loading section with financial datasets
- Implemented placeholder for Use Case 1: Financial Dashboard Creation
- Implemented placeholder for Use Case 2: Portfolio Analysis Workflow
- Implemented placeholder for Use Case 3: Automated Reporting Pipeline
- Added best practices and production tips section
- Included helper functions and error handling patterns
- Set up token tracking and cost optimization examples

Note: This is the initial structure with all code cells ready for testing.
The notebook includes realistic financial examples using sample data.

- Marked all Notebook 2 tasks as complete
- Updated current status to reflect implementation progress
- Added notes about worktree setup for parallel development
- Ready for end-to-end testing of the notebook

- Create comprehensive Jupyter notebook for custom skills
- Add three example skills:
  1. Financial Ratio Calculator
  2. Company Brand Guidelines
  3. Financial Modeling Suite (DCF, sensitivity analysis)
- Include skill_utils.py helper functions
- Add best practices and troubleshooting sections
- Provide complete skill directory structure with SKILL.md and Python scripts

- Changed from single quarter detailed structure to multi-quarter array format
- Added quarters array with Q1-Q4 2024 data
- Includes revenue, margins, customer metrics, and KPIs per quarter
- Added year_summary section with aggregated metrics
- Now compatible with Notebook 2's data loading code

Major improvements:
- Fixed cell type errors: Converted Python code from markdown to code cells
- Added missing executive PowerPoint creation code cell
- Enhanced flow with transitional markdown cells between sections
- Streamlined content by removing redundant production workflow sections
- Updated Table of Contents to reflect simplified structure

Content improvements:
- Added clear introductions for each major section
- Improved transitions between Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF examples
- Enhanced context for portfolio analysis workflow
- Better explanation of automated pipeline benefits
- Focused on core Skills functionality

The notebook now provides cleaner educational flow with smooth transitions
and necessary context throughout, while maintaining focus on practical examples.

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- Mark Notebook 2 (Financial Applications) as complete
- Document cleanup and polish work done on 2025-10-15
- Update status to reflect Notebook 2 completion
- Document improvements: fixed cell types, added missing code, enhanced flow
- Update next steps for Notebook 3 development

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- Added hands-on skill versioning workflow with healthcare benchmarks example
- Users now make real changes to skills and create versions without uncommenting code
- Added missing test cell for Financial Modeling Suite with DCF valuation
- Improved cleanup section with comprehensive skill inventory reporting
- Renamed custom skill directories from underscore to hyphen format for consistency
- Enhanced financial analyzer with healthcare industry benchmarks

The notebook now provides a complete, engaging learning experience for custom skills development.

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## Key Updates:

### Content Improvements:
- Clarified token savings explanation (98% applies until skill is used)
- Added helper scripts benefit to Skills description
- Improved "why skills" explanation with Skills vs MCPs/tools comparison
- Added simpler 1-2 line prompt examples for all document types
- Clarified file structure (multiple .md files allowed, SKILL.md only required)
- Updated metadata limits to exact values (name: 64 chars, description: 1024 chars)

### Visual Enhancements:
- Created assets/ directory for images
- Added 5 conceptual diagrams:
  - Skills conceptual diagram
  - Progressive disclosure visualizations (2)
  - Skills structure and bundled files diagrams
- Integrated images directly into notebooks for better understanding

### Code Quality:
- Applied comprehensive linting with ruff and black
- Fixed 65 linting issues (imports, whitespace, f-strings)
- Updated deprecated typing imports (Dict → dict, List → list)
- Ensured consistent code formatting across all notebooks

### Documentation:
- Added links to Claude Creates Files announcement
- Added references to best practices documentation
- Added placeholder for Skills architecture diagram from presentation

## Files Changed:
- notebooks/01_skills_introduction.ipynb
- notebooks/02_skills_financial_applications.ipynb
- notebooks/03_skills_custom_development.ipynb
- assets/ (5 PNG diagrams)

All P0 items from review thread completed and ready for public launch.

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Added the Claude Creates Files announcement link in strategic locations to connect
the dots on how Skills power Claude's file creation capabilities:

- README.md: Added prominently after introduction
- Notebook 1: Added at the very beginning to show real-world application
- Notebook 2: Added to show real-world financial applications impact

As requested by Drew Hodun to show Skills in action in a high-polish way.

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Per PR review feedback from Eric, renamed all custom skill directories
to use gerund form following Skills naming best practices:
- brand-guidelines → applying-brand-guidelines
- financial-analyzer → analyzing-financial-statements
- financial-modeler → creating-financial-models

Additional fixes from PR review:
- Fix capabilities/README.md title from "Claude Skills" to "Claude Capabilities"
- Remove internal planning document (skills_cookbook_plan.md)
- Remove status line from skills/CLAUDE.md
- Update SDK references from local whl to PyPI package (>=0.71.0)
- Fix repository URLs from private to public (claude-cookbooks)
- Remove absolute file paths from documentation
- Update all notebook references to use new skill directory names
- Fix broken link in contextual-embeddings notebook
- Update SKILL.md descriptions to use third person
- Remove references to non-existent Python scripts in financial-modeler

This ensures the cookbook follows Anthropic's Skills naming conventions
and is ready for public release.

…ntation

- Add links to official best practices guide in Skills documentation
- Update all Skills documentation URLs to docs.claude.com
- Ensure consistent linking across all notebooks and README files
- Remove any potential conflicts with duplicated best practices content

This ensures users always get the latest best practices from the official
documentation at docs.claude.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/

Add key documentation links to Skills cookbook:
- Engineering blog post "Equipping agents for the real world with Skills"
  added to README and both introduction notebooks for technical context
- Support articles added to help users learn Skills:
  - "Teach Claude your way of working using Skills" - user guide
  - "How to create a skill with Claude through conversation" - creation guide

These additions provide users with both technical depth (blog post) and
practical guidance (support articles) for understanding and using Skills.

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Add comprehensive Skills cookbook with 3 progressive notebooks

Sync skills cookbook from private repo