Claude Academy Guide Skill Reads a Live Course Catalog So It Never Goes Stale
The academy-guide Claude Agent Skill recommends matching Claude Academy courses and tutorials by reading a live catalog JSON at runtime instead of an embedded snapshot.
What it is
An opt-in skill in Anthropic's Claude Agent Skills repository, later renamed from claude-academy-guide to academy-guide because skill names can't contain the reserved words 'claude' or 'anthropic'.
What it does
When a user asks how to use Claude or a Claude product, it fetches the live catalog at academy.claude.com's assets JSON endpoint and suggests a matching course, tutorial, or use case; if the catalog can't be fetched, it names no specific item and points to the general Academy hub instead of guessing.
Why it matters
Fetching the catalog at runtime instead of hardcoding it avoids the classic doc-skill failure mode of confidently pointing users at a tutorial that got renamed or deleted months ago.
How to use it
Enable the academy-guide skill when you want Claude to surface relevant Claude Academy learning material in response to how-to questions.
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