You need to be skillsmaxxing (10x your Claude/Codex)

The people that understand how to use skills, how to use plugins with Codex and Claude Code just have this unfair advantage. But there's so many questions around it, like how do I use it with my team? Or how do I post it on GitHub? Or what are the skills I need to know? So on today's episode, we break it down super clearly. I brought my friend Remy, and he clearly explains how to use skills, how to use plugins, and how he runs his entire company with a bunch of skills that get him the best output out of Claude Code. What's really cool is Remy actually drops a bunch of the prompts in order to actually go and do this yourself, and he basically just explains exactly what you need to do in order to, to implement all these skill chains, basically multiple skills together, to actually help you live a more productive and hopefully revenue-generating life. Enjoy the episode. Today's episode is brought to you by Brex. My company's been on Brex for a year and a half, and I started because I kept hearing companies like Vercel, OpenAI, Anthropic were using Brex, and I figured if they're using it, why shouldn't I? It's been a game changer. The thing that got me is how smooth it is. It's got high-limit cards. It's got banking. It's got AI that handles the back office busy work like expense reports, which I don't wanna do, on its own. It's really just built for this agentic world. If you're building something new, it's time to get Brex. Check it out at brex.com/solutions/startups. Link in the description. [singing] The Startup Ideas Podcast. It's sippin' time, baby. I begged him to come back on. AI with Remy, as he's known, right?

Yes. AI with Remy.

Is here. Welcome back. Remy, by the end of the episode, what are people gonna learn?

You're gonna learn how to effectively manage and distribute skills, agent skills, across your entire team.

Okay, and, like, why, why should people care about that?

Because I think that agent skills are probably, like, the single most important concept. And, like, agent skills are what really actually save you time with AI when you're trying to automate out repeatable processes, and I don't feel like anyone's really cracked it, cracked the way to properly administer and share them across their team.

So if anyone is interested in agents to do tasks, and anyone's interested in doing it with teams, [lip smacks] this is the episode for them?

It is. It sure is.

All right, let's dive in.

Bang, bang. So before we get into it, I'm just gonna do a quick overview on what a skill is for those people who are listening who don't know. If you do, which I'm imagining a lot of people listening do, I'm sure, Greg, you'll do a good job of putting timestamps down below. You guys can just skip ahead. But skills are literally just SOPs for AI. So without a skill, the old way is if you wanted a proposal written, you would have to jump into a new session or a new chat, ask Claude to write you a proposal. You would probably get a result you're not happy with off the get-go, and you have to go through and re-explain all your preferences, the colors, the logo. Like, "Hey, put the price at the bottom instead of at the top," so on and so forth. And eventually, you