Creating and Editing Claude Skills

Description

Use before creating or editing any SKILL.md files, and immediately after making skill changes to verify quality. Invoked when user asks about skill structure, descriptions, or best practices. Provides expert guidance on naming, descriptions for discoverability, progressive context reveal, and validation workflows. Critical for ensuring skills are discoverable and effective - prevents poorly structured skills that Claude won't use properly.

Tool Access

Full access

Inherits all available tools

Supporting Files

5 files

Additional assets for this skill

Tool Access

This skill inherits all available tools. When active, it can use any tool Claude has access to.

Supporting Assets

reference/best-practices.md

reference/examples.md

reference/skill-review.md

reference/skill-structure.md

templates/skill-template.md

Links

GitHub Stats

1 forks

Updated 1 month ago

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