Issue 29: Skills & Firewalls

Claude, Vision, Atlas, Emerson & Hostinger VPS

Author

Mike Murphy
October 24, 2025

🗞️ AI News of The Week: Anthropic Announces Skills

What it is:
Anthropic just launched Claude Agent Skills. Skills are reusable knowledge bases that make Claude more effective at domain-specific work without you having to repeat yourself. Think of Claude Skills as instruction manuals that you create for Claude to follow when working on specific types of tasks.

Hot Take (observation by Mike):
I believe Claude Skills are powerful and useful, but they are confusing as heck to understand because they overlap with many of the other great Claude tools (MCP, Agents, Projects, ClaudeCode.md file, etc. When I figure out how to actually use them, I’ll let you know, but the internet is all abuzz about Claude Skills!

Skills are reusable knowledge bases that make Claude more effective at domain-specific work without you having to repeat yourself.

Example:
When you repeatedly find yourself explaining the same context, preferences, or procedures to Claude (like table names, filtering rules, or workflow steps), you can capture that information once in a Skill. Then, whenever Claude needs to perform similar tasks, it can reference that Skill instead of you having to re-explain everything.

The key components are:

  • A SKILL.md file that contains the main instructions

  • Optional reference files for additional information

  • Metadata (name and description) that helps Claude decide when to use the Skill


🧠 AI Term of The Week: Computer Vision

Computer Vision is how AI learns to “see” the world. It allows machines to interpret and process visual data like photos, videos, or live camera feeds.

Explain It Like I’m 5 Definition:
Computer vision is like giving eyes to a computer so it can understand what it sees in pictures or videos.

💬 Quote of the Week:

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

🧰 AI Tool of The Week: ChatGPT Atlas Browser

ChatGPT Atlas by OpenAI is a web browser & AI assistant that brings ChatGPT’s capabilities directly to your web experience, offering instant answers, smarter suggestions, and hands-on help with privacy controls you can manage.

Key features:

  • ChatGPT sidebar: Summarizes content, compares products, or analyzes data from any site.

  • Memory management: Lets users choose what ChatGPT remembers for relevant, contextual assistance.

  • Agent mode: Interacts with websites and completes tasks, like researching and shopping (available for Plus, Pro, Business accounts).

  • On-the-spot assistance: Highlights text for AI help in emails, docs, or calendar invites.

  • Privacy controls: Decide which sites ChatGPT can access, clear browsing history, and use incognito mode.

  • Smarter search: Supports searching across text, images, videos, and news.

  • Customizable experience: Adjust browser settings, tabs, and appearance for a personalized interface.

Mike’s Take:
So far, I’m impressed. I really don’t need more browsers in my life, but I do believe this is how web browsers will be in the future and expect Google Chrome to be like this very soon. There will be no need for you to use a separate ChatGPT app as you have access to your entire ChatGPT history in Atlas. It’s basically a hybrid of ChatGPT + Web Browser. It’s fast and simple to use.


🛠 What I Made: Hostinger VPS Firewall Setup: How To Protect Your Server in Minutes

Description:
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add Firewall Rules on your Hostinger VPS to block unauthorized access and protect all of the services on your VPS.

🤖 What You'll Learn:

  • What is a Firewall?

  • How To Test N8N Vulnerability?

  • How Do Firewalls Work?

  • How To Add Firewall Rules

  • How To Check n8n Exposure?

  • How To Test Firewall?

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