How does progressive disclosure improve skill performance?

It distributes content across three tiers—Metadata, SKILL.md, and References—ensuring the model only loads high-priority instructions initially while accessing detailed documentation only when necessary, saving token budget and reasoning capacity.

What is a Claude Code skill?

A Claude Code skill is a specialized capability or 'field manual' that provides domain-specific guidance, best practices, and implementation patterns to enhance Claude's performance on specific tasks within a development environment.

How can I ensure my skill activates at the right time?

Effective routing is achieved by optimizing the YAML description field with 5-8 specific, third-person trigger phrases in quotes that mirror exactly how a user would request that specific capability.

What is 'Altitude Calibration' in skill building?

Altitude Calibration is the practice of finding the 'Goldilocks zone' for instructions: writing prompts that are specific enough to guide behavior accurately but flexible enough to let the model use its own reasoning heuristics without becoming brittle.

Claude Skill Architect

Name: Claude Skill Architect
Author: AnExiledDev

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学习与文档

Standardizes the creation and optimization of Claude Code skills using cross-vendor principles and progressive disclosure patterns.

The Skill Building framework provides a rigorous methodology for developing high-performance Claude Code skills that maximize model reasoning while minimizing context waste. By implementing a three-tier progressive disclosure system and precise semantic routing, this skill helps developers transform project-specific knowledge into actionable field manuals for AI agents. It bridges the gap between general LLM capabilities and specialized project requirements, covering directory structuring, trigger phrase optimization, and 'Goldilocks' altitude calibration to ensure consistent, expert-level AI behavior.

主要功能

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02Standardized SKILL.md structure with YAML frontmatter optimization

03Semantic routing guidance with specific trigger phrase design patterns

04Five distinct authoring patterns including Few-Shot, Procedural, and Orchestration logic

05Three-tier progressive disclosure for efficient token and context management

06Cross-vendor prompt engineering principles synthesized from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google

使用场景

01Optimizing existing skill descriptions to improve semantic routing and activation accuracy

02Designing a new domain-specific skill for a custom Claude Code plugin environment

03Restructuring large documentation sets into a multi-tier reference system for AI agents

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add anexileddev/codeforge skill-building

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Download Skill