Anthropic Communication Skills: Team Messaging with Claude Code

Official skills: anthropics/skills

Anthropic provides official skills that enhance team communication workflows within Claude Code. These skills focus on helping teams communicate more effectively, whether through well-crafted internal messages or engaging visual content for Slack.

Internal Communications

Skill: internal-comms

The internal-comms skill assists with drafting and refining internal team communications. This includes announcements, updates, policy documents, and other messages intended for colleagues within an organization.

What It Does

This skill helps with:

• Drafting company-wide announcements
• Writing team updates and status reports
• Creating clear policy communications
• Structuring meeting notes and action items
• Formatting internal documentation

How to Use It

Invoke the skill when you need help with internal messaging:

Copy/internal-comms

You can also provide context directly:

Copy/internal-comms Draft an announcement about the new remote work policy

Example Use Cases

Team Updates:

Copy/internal-comms Write a weekly engineering update covering:
- Completed: Authentication refactor
- In progress: Database migration
- Blocked: Third-party API integration

Policy Announcements:

Copy/internal-comms Create an announcement about updated PTO procedures
effective next quarter

Meeting Summaries:

Copy/internal-comms Summarize these meeting notes into action items
and key decisions for distribution to stakeholders

Slack GIF Creator

Skill: slack-gif-creator

The slack-gif-creator skill generates custom GIFs suitable for Slack reactions, celebrations, and team engagement. This adds a creative element to team communications.

What It Does

This skill enables:

• Creating custom animated GIFs
• Generating reaction images for Slack
• Producing celebration graphics for team milestones
• Making visual content sized appropriately for Slack

How to Use It

Invoke the skill to start creating GIFs:

Copy/slack-gif-creator

Provide a description for more specific results:

Copy/slack-gif-creator Create a celebration GIF for shipping a new feature

Example Use Cases

Celebrations:

Copy/slack-gif-creator Make a congratulations GIF for a successful product launch

Reactions:

Copy/slack-gif-creator Create a thumbs-up approval GIF with confetti

Team Recognition:

Copy/slack-gif-creator Generate an animated "great job" badge for the team channel

Installation

To use these skills, add them to your Claude Code configuration. Clone or reference the skills from the official repository:

bashCopy# Clone the skills repository
git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills.git

# Or add specific skills to your project

Configure the skills in your Claude Code setup according to the documentation in each skill's directory.

Combining Skills for Better Communication

These communication skills work well together. Use internal-comms to draft a team announcement, then create an accompanying GIF with slack-gif-creator to make the message more engaging when shared in Slack.

Example workflow:

1. Use
   Copy/internal-comms
   to draft a quarterly milestone celebration message
2. Use
   Copy/slack-gif-creator
   to create a matching celebration GIF
3. Post both to your team Slack channel

Summary

| Skill | Purpose | Invocation | |-------|---------|------------| | internal-comms | Draft internal team communications |

| | slack-gif-creator | Create GIFs for Slack | |

These official Anthropic skills streamline team communication workflows, helping you create polished internal messages and engaging visual content directly within Claude Code.