designing-claude-skills

Description

Comprehensive guide for creating, reviewing, and improving skills that extend Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tool integrations. Use this skill when: (1) Creating a new skill from scratch, (2) Reviewing or auditing an existing skill for quality and adherence to best practices, (3) Updating or refactoring an existing skill, (4) Understanding skill architecture, anatomy, and design patterns, (5) Troubleshooting skill loading, triggering, or packaging issues, (6) Learning how to effectively use bundled resources like scripts, references, and assets, (7) Planning what type of skill structure is appropriate for a given use case.

Tool Access

Full access

Inherits all available tools

Supporting Files

7 files

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Tool Access

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

Supporting Assets

references/best-practices.md

references/how-skills-work.md

references/output-patterns.md

references/workflows.md

scripts/init_skill.py

scripts/package_skill.py

scripts/quick_validate.py

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