How to share Claude skills with your team on Pro or Max plans

What Claude offers on each plan

Skills themselves work on every plan, Free included. Sharing them is what the plans split:

From Claude's Help Center, read on 4 November 2026.

Claude's own help page puts it plainly: on plans other than Team and Enterprise, each person uploads skills to their own account.

The do-it-yourself way: pass the ZIP around

This works today and costs nothing beyond the plans you already pay for.

1. Make the skill a ZIP. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file in it. Zip the folder. If you start from a doc, the free SKILL.md converter writes the file and the ZIP for you.
2. Send it. Slack, email, or a shared drive.
3. Each person uploads it. In Claude: Customize > Skills > "+" > "+ Create skill" > "Upload a skill", then pick the ZIP. Code execution must be on, since skills run with it.
4. Repeat on every change. When you fix a step, you send a new ZIP and everyone uploads it again.

Step 4 is where this breaks. After a month, three people run three versions of "the" proposal skill, and nobody can say which one wrote last week's proposal.

The shared way: one pod, one connector

Custom connectors let Claude reach a remote MCP server, and they're on Pro and Max. A skill pod is such a server: it holds the team's skills, and every connected Claude reaches the same copy.

1. Create the pod and add skills. Paste a doc, or tell Claude "make this a team skill" in the chat where you worked it out.
2. Send one invite link. Personal emails work, so a teammate on a personal Pro account joins like anyone else.
3. Each person adds the connector once. Customize > Connectors > "+ Add" > "Add custom connector", then paste the pod's MCP link.
4. Edits land for everyone. A change is proposed in chat and approved in one click; the next person to use the skill gets the new version.

One honest limit: Claude chat and Desktop don't load skills served over MCP into the Skills list (Anthropic's issue tracker has an open request for it). Claude reaches the pod's skills through the MCP link instead, as it uses any connector.

When Claude Team is the better answer

If everyone is a full-time employee, you want Claude usage paid by the company anyway, and you only use Claude, Team does the job with Anthropic's own sharing. Claude Team Standard is $25 per seat a month, or $20 billed annually, with a 2-seat minimum.

It stops fitting when part of the team lives elsewhere: a contractor on their own Pro account, a colleague who works in ChatGPT, or a developer in Cursor. Claude's sharing reaches only members of your Claude organization. See Claude Team skill sharing compared for the full table, and the contractor guide for the second case.

Questions

Can a Pro user send a skill link to another Pro user?

No. Claude's Share button, which makes a view-only link for colleagues, is a Team and Enterprise feature. On Pro and Max, each person uploads the skill to their own account.

Is Claude Team worth it just to share skills?

Claude Team Standard costs $25 per seat a month ($20 billed annually), with a 2-seat minimum, and everyone has to be in your organization. It also brings Claude usage for every seat. If your people already pay for Pro or Max, or some are contractors with their own accounts, a shared skill pod is the smaller step.

Will the skill show up in Claude's Skills list?

Not through AI Skill Pod. Claude chat and Desktop don't load skills served over MCP into the Skills list. Claude reaches the pod's skills through the MCP link instead, the way it uses any connector.