Authoring Skills

If you're building agent workflows and need to document what they should do, this is the meta skill you want. It gives your agent structured guidance on when to create a new skill file versus just adding a note to AGENTS.md, plus templates for file structure and naming conventions. Honestly most useful if you're actively maintaining a skills repository or frequently spinning up new agent capabilities. The distinction it draws is practical: detailed workflows and code templates belong in skills, one-liner rules stay in the main config. Comes from the Vercel Next.js repository, so it follows the patterns they use for their own extensive skill library.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add vercel/next.js --skill authoring-skills --agent claude-code