Create Skill

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Provides a comprehensive framework and best practices for creating new, modular skills. It outlines core principles like conciseness and progressive disclosure to ensure efficient context window usage. This skill details the standard anatomy of a skill, including metadata, instructions, scripts, references, and assets, and walks through a structured 5-step process from initial understanding to final implementation, enabling you to build powerful, specialized tools.

Key Features

• Provides a structured 5-step process for skill creation (Understand, Plan, Initialize, Edit, Iterate)
• Defines core principles for effectiveness, including conciseness and progressive disclosure
• Outlines the standard anatomy of a skill (SKILL.md, scripts, references, assets)
• Specifies best practices for managing context efficiently through a three-level loading system
• Establishes conventions for skill naming and file organization
• 4,590 GitHub stars

Use Cases

• Building a new skill to automate a repetitive development task
• Extending your capabilities with domain-specific knowledge or company workflows
• Creating a reusable tool integration for a specific API or file format