# How do Agents and Skills interact in the Claude Code Agent short course?

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**Created:** [March 3, 2026, 11:57am UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/how-do-agents-and-skills-interact-in-the-claude-code-agent-short-course/889763 "2026-03-03T11:57:01Z")\
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Hi everyone,

I’m going through the _Agent Skills_ section in the Anthropic short course (last lecture: _Skills with Claude Code Agent_), and I’m a bit confused about how the agents and skills are connected internally.

In the example:

- First, we created an **orchestrator agent**

- Then we created **3 sub-agents**

- After that, we defined **skills**

However, I noticed that:

- The `skills` definitions don’t seem to explicitly reference any sub-agents or tools via a path.

- The sub-agents also don’t appear to have any direct reference to the `skills.md` file.

So I’m trying to understand:

1. How exactly are the agents and skills interacting?

2. What is the sequence of input → processing → output?

3. How does the output of a skill get consumed by an agent?

4. Is this linkage happening implicitly through the framework runtime?

If someone could explain the control flow (maybe with a simple example of how input flows from orchestrator → sub-agent → skill → back), that would really help.