majiayu000 Skill Creator
This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills.
About Skills
Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools.
What Skills Provide
- Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
- Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs
- Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
- Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex tasks
Skill Structure
skill-name/
├── SKILL.md (required)
│ ├── YAML frontmatter metadata (required)
│ │ ├── name: (required)
│ │ └── description: (required)
│ └── Markdown instructions (required)
└── Bundled Resources (optional)
├── scripts/ - Executable code
├── references/ - Documentation
└── assets/ - Files used in output
Core Principles
Concise is Key
Only add context Claude doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does Claude really need this explanation?"
Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom
- High freedom: Use when multiple approaches are valid
- Medium freedom: Use when a preferred pattern exists
- Low freedom: Use when operations are fragile and error-prone
Skill Creation Process
- Understand the skill with concrete examples
- Plan reusable skill contents (scripts, references, assets)
- Initialize the skill (run init_skill.py)
- Edit the skill (implement resources and write SKILL.md)
- Package the skill (run package_skill.py)
- Iterate based on real usage