Create Skill

This is a meta-skill that teaches you how to build skills for Claude. It breaks down the architecture (frontmatter metadata, SKILL.md body, optional bundled resources like scripts and references), explains when to use high versus low degrees of freedom, and emphasizes keeping things token-efficient through progressive disclosure. The core insight is treating skills as onboarding guides that give Claude procedural knowledge it can't have by default. Most useful when you're shipping your first skill or refactoring an existing one that's bloated. The guidance on splitting references and assets into separate files is practical, and the "context window is a public good" framing will save you from over-explaining things Claude already knows.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add hairyf/skills --skill create-skill --agent claude-code