Skill Development Skills

Q: How do I create my own Claude Code skill?

Install a skill-development skill, then ask Claude to help you write a SKILL.md file. Skills are just markdown instructions stored in your repo's .claude/skills/ directory. These meta-skills guide you through the process.

Meta-skills for creating Claude Code skills. If you want to build and publish your own skills, these will help Claude scaffold SKILL.md files, test skill behavior, and follow the skill authoring conventions.

15 skills

find-skills

vercel-labs/skills

661.2k

11.2k

When users ask "how do I do X" or "can you help with Y," this skill searches the open agent skills ecosystem instead of making you reinvent the wheel. It checks skills.sh for existing solutions, runs CLI searches with specific keywords, and verifies quality by checking install counts and source reputation before recommending anything. The skill prioritizes battle-tested options from sources like vercel-labs and anthropics over unknown packages with low install counts. It's essentially a package manager interface that prevents you from manually coding solutions that already exist as installable skills.

skill-creator

anthropics/skills

98.4k

99.3k

Creates and iterates on Claude skills through a structured workflow: captures your intent, writes the SKILL.md with proper triggering descriptions, generates test cases for objective outputs, and runs evaluation cycles to refine performance. Handles the full lifecycle from initial draft to optimization, including quantitative benchmarks and description tuning for better triggering accuracy. Most useful when you want to systematize a workflow you've been doing manually or when an existing skill isn't performing well. The evaluation framework is solid, though you'll still need to manually review outputs for subjective improvements. Saves significant time on the boilerplate and testing infrastructure.

writing-skills

obra/superpowers

22.1k

103.2k

This is test-driven development applied to writing documentation. Instead of testing code, you're testing whether agents actually follow your instructions. You write pressure scenarios with subagents, watch them fail without your skill present, then write the skill document to address those specific failure modes. The approach catches the gap between what you think you communicated and what agents actually understood. It includes solid guidance on skill structure, Claude search optimization, and when skills are worth creating versus just putting notes in project files. The TDD mapping table alone makes the mental model click.

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microsoft-skill-creator

github/awesome-copilot

7.4k

26.4k

The microsoft-skill-creator skill enables agents to develop hybrid skills for Microsoft technologies by investigating topics through the Learn MCP Server and generating modular knowledge packages that store essential information locally while preserving access to dynamic documentation lookups. It serves developers and AI practitioners who need to create specialized agent capabilities for Microsoft platforms and services ranging from Azure to .NET to M365. The skill solves the problem of agents lacking domain-specific knowledge about Microsoft technologies by providing a structured process to research topics deeply, extract core concepts, and package them in reusable skill modules that balance local context efficiency with real-time documentation access.

create-skill

siviter-xyz/dot-agent

The create-skill guides developers and agents in building modular skills that extend agent capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tool integrations. It addresses the problem of maintaining performant, maintainable agent systems by establishing a progressive disclosure architecture that keeps initial context loads small (<200 lines) while enabling deeper resources to load on-demand. The skill emphasizes conciseness, appropriate degrees of freedom in instructions, and cross-model testing to ensure skills integrate effectively into agent systems.

rust-skill-creator

zhanghandong/rust-skills

507

895

skill-creator

tldraw/tldraw

45k

Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.

Complete terms in LICENSE.txt

create-skill-file

labring/FastGPT

27k

Guides Claude in creating well-structured SKILL.md files following best practices. Provides clear guidelines for naming, structure, and content organization to make skills easy to discover and execute.

flow-coordinator

catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow

1.2k

Template-driven workflow coordinator with minimal state tracking. Executes command chains from workflow templates with slash-command execution (mainprocess/async). Triggers on "flow-coordinator", "workflow template", "orchestrate".

creating-skills

pr-pm/prpm

Use when creating new Claude Code skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, CSO optimization, and real examples

creating-skills

AgentWorkforce/relay

Use when creating new Claude Code skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, CSO optimization, and real examples

writing-skills

Trevoke/org-gtd.el

457

Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment

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FAQ

How do I create my own Claude Code skill?

Install a skill-development skill, then ask Claude to help you write a SKILL.md file. Skills are just markdown instructions stored in your repo's .claude/skills/ directory. These meta-skills guide you through the process.

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