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How to Use Agent Skills

March 18, 2026

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Dispatch, Skills, and the Agentic Convergence

Anthropic's Claude Cowork Dispatch feature—allowing users to initiate a Cowork session on their desktop and then monitor progress and provide approvals from their phone—has drawn 3 million views on the announcement tweet and 9,000 bookmarks. Developer Felix Riseberg described it as "like having a walkie-talkie for communicating with Claude," while Ethan Moloch offered a more measured take: "Claude Cowork Dispatch covers 90% of what I was trying to use OpenClaw for, but feels far less likely to upload my entire drive to a malware site." His caveats—no ability to invite Claude to any channel, no heartbeat or proactivity, and single-session only—highlight the gap between mainstream and hardcore agent users. Powell Heron captured the broader trend: "Code, Cowork, web, and now dispatch are all converging towards the same thing—a persistent AI layer that follows you across devices and contexts."

China's OpenClaw Anxiety

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What you'll learn

1 (01:07) **Claude Cowork Dispatch Launch**
2 (03:58) **OpenClaw Boom and Chinese Regulatory Concerns**
3 (06:47) **China Scrutinizes Meta's Manus Acquisition**
4 (07:46) **NVIDIA Resumes H200 Shipments to China**
5 (09:01) **AWS AI Revenue Projection Doubles to $600B**
6 (13:23) **Introduction to Agent Skills**
7 (14:04) **What Are Agent Skills?**

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Show Notes

The team behind Claude Code's agent skills shares lessons on building, testing, and organizing skills — and the concept is converging across the entire AI stack, from hardcore developers to mainstream tools like Notion. Whether you're orchestrating multi-agent teams or just trying to get an AI to reliably do one task your way, skills represent a shift from ad hoc prompting to reusable, repeatable capabilities. In the headlines: Claude Cowork gets mobile control via Dispatch, China's government grows wary of Open Claw, and Andy Jassy sees AI doubling AWS revenue.

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