Writing Skills

About

The Writing Skills skill provides a structured framework for documenting domain-specific capabilities within a codebase, ensuring coding agents receive necessary context without inducing context bloat. It outlines precise requirements for directory organization, YAML front matter formatting, and concise markdown structure. This skill is particularly useful for developers who want to scale their agent's performance by providing focused, high-quality guidance that is only loaded when strictly necessary for task completion.

Key Features

• Criteria for determining skill necessity to optimize LLM context usage
• Standardized YAML front matter configuration for skill metadata
• 4 GitHub stars
• Organizational standards for directory-based skill storage
• Best practices for writing concise and scannable markdown instructions
• Guidance on referencing auxiliary scripts and data within skill definitions

Use Cases

• Standardizing the contribution process for a shared skills repository
• Developing new documentation for specialized coding agent behaviors
• Optimizing agent performance by modularizing domain-specific knowledge