Skill Creator

This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills.

About Skills

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools.

What Skills Provide

• Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains

• Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs

• Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic

• Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex tasks

Skill Structure

skill-name/ ├── SKILL.md (required) │ ├── YAML frontmatter metadata (required) │ │ ├── name: (required) │ │ └── description: (required) │ └── Markdown instructions (required) └── Bundled Resources (optional) ├── scripts/ - Executable code ├── references/ - Documentation └── assets/ - Files used in output

Core Principles

Concise is Key

Only add context Claude doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does Claude really need this explanation?"

Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom

• High freedom: Use when multiple approaches are valid

• Medium freedom: Use when a preferred pattern exists

• Low freedom: Use when operations are fragile and error-prone

Skill Creation Process

• Understand the skill with concrete examples

• Plan reusable skill contents (scripts, references, assets)

• Initialize the skill (run init_skill.py)

• Edit the skill (implement resources and write SKILL.md)

• Package the skill (run package_skill.py)

• Iterate based on real usage