Making friends as a kid was effortless because the structure did the work for you — school forced repeated contact with the same people in low-stakes settings. As an adult, you have to build that structure yourself, and nobody teaches you how. This isn't a personality flaw. It's a logistics problem. The research is clear: adult friendships die from scheduling conflicts, not from lack of caring. This skill covers both halves — finding people in the first place, and converting acquaintances into actual friends through deliberate, repeatable actions. It also covers the group dynamics piece: how…
Adult Social Skills is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/adult-social-skills/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when someone is lonely, has moved to a new city, wants to make friends, struggles in group settings, or needs to rebuild a social life.
The Adult Social Skills Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/adult-social-skills curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/adult-social-skills/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/adult-social-skills/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/adult-social-skills/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/adult-social-skills/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\adult-social-skills\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/adult-social-skills/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Adult Social Skills is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{adult-social-skills-2026,
author = {ndesv21},
title = {Adult Social Skills [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/adult-social-skills/}
}Browse all General skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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