What is the primary benefit of the creating-skills tool?

It ensures that custom Claude skills are built using official best practices, making them more reliable, easier for the model to understand, and efficient within the context window.

What are the naming requirements for a Claude skill?

Skills should use a gerund form (verb + -ing), contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, and be no longer than 64 characters.

Does this tool help with visual planning?

Yes, it includes a phase specifically for generating ASCII architecture diagrams to visualize decision trees, file structures, and validation flows before implementation.

How does this skill handle large amounts of documentation?

It utilizes a progressive disclosure pattern, keeping the main SKILL.md under 500 lines and moving detailed references to a single-level subdirectory.

Skill Creation Architect

Name: Skill Creation Architect
Author: Sawyer-Middeleer

bySawyer-Middeleer

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Productivity & Workflow

Automates the creation of high-quality Claude Code skills by enforcing official best practices for structure, naming, and context efficiency.

About

The creating-skills skill provides a rigorous framework for developing domain-specific capabilities for Claude. It guides users through a four-phase lifecycle—Initial Clarification, Design & Planning, Content Creation, and Quality Validation—to ensure new skills are concise, performant, and easy to discover. By utilizing progressive disclosure patterns and interactive requirement gathering, it helps developers build tools that maximize Claude's effectiveness without exceeding context window limits.

Key Features

13 GitHub stars
Optimized progressive disclosure patterns to manage context window usage
Validation engine for naming conventions and file structure
Guided four-phase workflow for standardized skill development
Interactive requirement gathering using structured user prompts
Automated ASCII architecture diagram generation for visual mapping

Use Cases

Authoring new domain-specific skills for custom Claude Agent workflows
Optimizing and refactoring existing skills to improve performance and conciseness
Standardizing skill development patterns across large engineering teams

About

Key Features

13 GitHub stars
Optimized progressive disclosure patterns to manage context window usage
Validation engine for naming conventions and file structure
Guided four-phase workflow for standardized skill development
Interactive requirement gathering using structured user prompts
Automated ASCII architecture diagram generation for visual mapping

Use Cases

Authoring new domain-specific skills for custom Claude Agent workflows
Optimizing and refactoring existing skills to improve performance and conciseness
Standardizing skill development patterns across large engineering teams