How does this skill improve my workflow?

It streamlines skill development by providing best practices for conciseness and structure. This ensures your custom skills are token-efficient, powerful, and easy for the AI agent to use, leading to more reliable results.

When should I use this skill?

Use this skill whenever you are creating a new AI agent skill or updating an existing one. It is essential for embedding specialized knowledge, custom workflows, or tool integrations into the agent.

What does the Skill Creator skill do?

It provides a comprehensive guide and structured framework for designing and building new, effective, and modular skills to extend the capabilities of AI coding agents like Claude.

What capabilities does it provide?

It outlines a step-by-step process, defines the standard skill structure (SKILL.md, scripts, references), offers principles for setting instructional freedom, and guides the creation of optional user-triggered slash commands.

Skill Creator

Name: Skill Creator
Author: mk0e

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Developer Tools

Guides the creation of effective, modular skills to extend AI agent capabilities with specialized knowledge and workflows.

About

Provides a comprehensive framework and best practices for authoring new skills for AI coding agents. This meta-skill acts as an onboarding guide for developers, teaching them how to package specialized knowledge, multi-step workflows, and tool integrations into self-contained modules. It covers core principles like context window efficiency, progressive disclosure of information, and defining the appropriate level of procedural freedom, transforming a general-purpose agent into a specialist for any given domain.

Key Features

Includes instructions for creating optional user-triggered prompts (slash commands) for skills.
2 GitHub stars
Defines the standard structure for skills, including SKILL.md and optional bundled scripts and reference files.
Provides a step-by-step process for designing and building new AI agent skills.
Guides on setting the appropriate level of instruction, from high-freedom text to low-freedom scripts.
Outlines best practices for skill creation, emphasizing conciseness and progressive disclosure.

Use Cases

Updating an existing skill to improve its efficiency or add new capabilities.
Standardizing the process for extending an AI coding agent's knowledge base across a team.
Creating a new skill to teach an AI agent a specific workflow or tool.

About

Key Features

Includes instructions for creating optional user-triggered prompts (slash commands) for skills.
2 GitHub stars
Defines the standard structure for skills, including SKILL.md and optional bundled scripts and reference files.
Provides a step-by-step process for designing and building new AI agent skills.
Guides on setting the appropriate level of instruction, from high-freedom text to low-freedom scripts.
Outlines best practices for skill creation, emphasizing conciseness and progressive disclosure.

Use Cases

Updating an existing skill to improve its efficiency or add new capabilities.
Standardizing the process for extending an AI coding agent's knowledge base across a team.
Creating a new skill to teach an AI agent a specific workflow or tool.