Skill Authoring

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Master the art of building specialized capabilities for Claude with this comprehensive guide to Skill authoring. It provides a blueprint for creating domain-specific instructions that enhance AI performance while maintaining token efficiency. By implementing core principles like progressive disclosure, concise communication, and appropriate degrees of freedom, you can build skills that are both highly effective and easy to maintain. Whether you are establishing a new project or refining existing agent rules, this skill helps you apply proven design patterns, guardrails, and workflows to ensure your AI agents operate with maximum precision.

Key Features

• Guidelines for balancing task specificity with model autonomy
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• Reusable interaction patterns including templates and conditional workflows
• Progressive disclosure patterns for organizing complex documentation
• Best practices for avoiding common anti-patterns and token bloat
• Standardized YAML frontmatter and naming convention requirements

Use Cases

• Optimizing token usage and model performance in complex agent environments
• Refactoring existing project documentation into a structured AI-readable format
• Building a new domain-specific Claude Skill from scratch