Skills: Claude Code for Economists with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham | Markus Academy | Ep. 162-6

Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ Paul’s detailed notes on this episode can be found here: https://paulgp.substack.com/p/skills-... Paul’s code for his Claude Container can be found here: https://github.com/paulgp/claude-cont... Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham joined Markus’ Academy for a mini-series on Claude Code for Applied Economists. This is episode 6 of 8. Goldsmith-Pinkham is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management and a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER. In this episode, Paul explained Claude Skills: reusable instruction bundles that help Claude perform recurring tasks in a standardized way. He showed where Skills are stored, how global and project-level Skills differ, and then built a paper-summary Skill for seminar preparation. Paul also introduced community Skill packs such as “superpowers.” Timestamps: [0:00] What are Claude Skills? [7:33] Building a paper-summary Skill [21:50] Skill packs, “superpowers,” and cautions about overusing Skills