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44description: Attach pre-built or custom skills to an agent in Claude Managed Agents to give it reusable, filesystem-based expertise for domain-specific workflows.
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7## Compatibility
8- Status: Beta
9- [Beta header](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta-headers): `managed-agents-2026-04-01`
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711Skills are reusable, filesystem-based resources that give your agent domain-specific expertise: workflows, context, and best practices that turn a general-purpose agent into a specialist. Each skill you add incurs a modest cost on the session's context window, adding instructions and metadata that help the model use the skill. Learn more in the [Agent Skills](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview) overview.
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913Skills reach your agent in two ways: attach them through the agent's `skills` array, or [load them from a GitHub repository](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/skills#load-skills-from-a-github-repository) mounted on the session. Attached skills come in two types. All skills work the same way: your agent invokes them automatically when they are relevant to the task.
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1216* **Custom skills:** Skills you author and upload to your workspace.
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1418To learn how to author custom skills, see [Agent Skills](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview) and [Skill authoring best practices](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/best-practices). To upload a custom skill to your workspace, see [Create a custom skill](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/skills#create-a-custom-skill).
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17 Managed Agents API requests require the `managed-agents-2026-04-01` beta header, except memory store endpoints, which use `agent-memory-2026-07-22` instead. The SDK sets the correct beta header automatically. See [Beta headers](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta-headers#endpoint-specific-headers).
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2020## Create a custom skill
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