Study Hall 1.2 — Build a Skills Harness in Notion with Claude

October 7, 2026

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ShTfJUnr-WS-YDoPFoCJbHWaX-Jh_zzHL_P5FiBTkSc/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ShTfJUnr-WS-YDoPFoCJbHWaX-Jh_zzHL_P5FiBTkSc/preview?usp=sharing)

What you will build

A harness that finds agent skills on the web, collects them into Notion, tags them, and holds them for your review. Claude does the work through the Notion connector. Notion holds the state.

You end up with two Notion databases and four repeatable prompts:

Stage	What Claude does	Reads	Writes
Explore	Finds places where skills are published	The web	Sources, Status = Proposed
Seek	Pulls skills from each source	Sources where Status = Active	Skills, Status = New
Organize	Tags, summarizes, flags duplicates	Skills where Status = New	Skills, Status = Organized
Review	Nothing. You decide.	Skills where Status = Organized	Approved or Rejected
Understand	Answers questions and generates from the collection	Skills where Status = Approved	A digest page, a comparison, or a new skill

The point of the exercise: a Git repo or an Obsidian vault can store the skill files, but the Status column is what turns storage into a queue. Each stage picks up rows in one status and leaves them in the next.

The same harness packaged as a reusable skill is in the two sub-pages at the bottom of this page.

Before you start

You need three things, and about 45 minutes.

[ ] A Notion workspace where you can create pages. A free personal workspace works.
[ ] The Notion connector added and turned on in Claude, authorized for that workspace.
[ ] Web search turned on in Claude. Explore and Seek both need it.

How to use this guide:

Run every step in one Claude conversation, in order. Later prompts refer to things earlier prompts created.
Copy each prompt block as written. Change only the parts in [brackets].
Claude asks permission before it writes to Notion. Read what it proposes, then approve.
After each step, open Notion and check the result before moving on. Each step ends with a "Check" line that says what you should see.

Step 1: Confirm the connection and create a home page

This proves Claude can read and write your workspace, and gives the harness one place to live.