How do I install the Skill skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add chinayin/skill in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Skill safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Skill?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Skill free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

chinayin (@chinayin) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Skill by chinayin — Agent Skill

Name: Skill
Author: chinayin

Skill

Rules for naming an agent skill, choosing its body language, and keeping environment facts out of it. Use whenever a skill is created, renamed, split, reviewed, or edited — writing a SKILL.md or its frontmatter, adding a skill to a repo or plugin, splitting an overloaded skill in two, versioning one, or deciding what a new skill should be called — even when the user only says "add a skill for X" or asks what to name it. Use it together with skill-creator, which owns the authoring process; naming and language are decided here.

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Skill Authoring Rules

skill-creator owns the authoring process. This file adds only what it leaves open.

Naming

One word for a rule set about one kind of file or language: go, shell, skill.
Otherwise object-action — the resource, then the one thing done to it: cluster-deploy, token-rotate, user-invite. Resources outnumber verbs, so listings group by resource, and the CLIs a skill wraps are noun-verb themselves (kubectl get, gh pr).
Verb-first only for a methodology with no single object (writing-plans).
Follow the form the sibling skills use. Do not rename an existing skill — the name is the invocation handle.
No version in the name (-v2): two names for the same job compete for triggering. Version the plugin, or use the frontmatter metadata field.

Language

English for the description, the body, and everything a script prints. Chinese only when the repo's instructions or the user ask for it, or when the sibling skills are already in Chinese — one skill set, one language.

Environment facts

A skill is distributed and loaded into context. It must not contain a hostname, IP, account or resource ID, or credential. Write where the value is read from, never the value itself.

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