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Claude Code Skills vs slash commands

Slash commands are just skills now

Jeff Morhous
Feb 06, 2026
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The Claude skills documentation page

We’ve written a lot on the newsletter about skills for Claude Code. They’re an incredible way to bundle up knowledge for an LLM.

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They’ve completely eliminated any need for me to copy/paste prompts into Claude Code.

But what about slash commands? We wrote about those a while back too! Are they still a thing?

In short, not really.

In today’s newsletter, we’ll explain the merge of slash commands and skills, and how to create a new skill for a common and repeatable workflow.


This newsletter is for tech workers who want to multiply their impact using bleeding-edge AI tools. If you want to accelerate your career, you’re in the right place.


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