Creating Agent Skills

About

Empowers developers to extend Claude's capabilities by creating structured Agent Skills that function as formalized, battle-tested process playbooks. This skill covers foundational principles of context window management, the three-tier loading architecture, and standardized directory organization for scripts, references, and assets. It provides a comprehensive framework for designing both instruction-based and code-based skills, ensuring that custom workflows are reliable, portable, and optimized for token efficiency.

Key Features

• Frameworks for instruction-based, code-based, and hybrid skill models
• Standardized directory patterns for scripts, references, and assets
• Portable resource referencing using the {baseDir} variable
• Best practices for metadata discovery and skill description writing
• Three-Tier Architecture guidance for optimizing context window usage
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Use Cases

• Designing and structuring new SKILL.md files for domain-specific tasks
• Optimizing existing skills to minimize token consumption and startup cost
• Building complex automation workflows that combine LLM reasoning with script execution