Essential Claude Code Skills for Mobile Developers

Claude Code skills are packaged folders of instructions, scripts and resources that teach the AI coding agent how to perform specialised tasks. Each skill has a SKILL.md file containing YAML metadata and step by step instructions. Claude scans the names and descriptions of installed skills and loads the full content only when your request matches. Because skills are part of an open standard adopted by multiple agent frameworks, a single skill can work across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor and other tools. Installing Claude Code skills Skills can be installed globally or per project. Personal skills go into ~/.claude/skills/ and become available across all your projects, while project specific skills live in .claude/skills/ inside your repository so everyone who clones the repo can use them. Most skills are plain Markdown folders: clone the repository and copy the skill directory into the appropriate folder. For example, the Swift Development skill’s README shows that you can install