skill-creator_skill

Overview

This skill creates high-quality, reusable AI skills using local standards and templates. It enforces strict design rules: one skill per job, reuse checks, and progressive disclosure. It is opinionated and tailored for personal projects and developer workflows.

How this skill works

The skill inspects a request and validates that the proposed pattern appears at least three times and has a single responsibility. It scaffolds a standardized skill folder, populates core documentation from the local template, and adds reference and assets folders. For tool or hybrid skills it also creates scripts and runs a mandatory quality gate that checks documentation size and forbids external references.

When to use it

• When a pattern repeats three or more times and should be packaged as a reusable capability.
• When you need explicit guardrails and deterministic behavior for an agent task.
• When you want to standardize a recurring workflow or rule set across projects.
• When a request is deterministic enough to automate or document as a skill.
• Do not use for one-off tasks or when existing documentation already covers the need.

Best practices

• Enforce reusability: confirm three or more concrete uses before creating a skill.
• Keep scope tight: design one skill to solve one job; split if responsibilities mix.
• Use progressive disclosure: keep surface docs short and move deep details to reference.
• Request the minimum tool permissions required (Read, Write, Bash as needed).
• Cross-reference existing skills instead of duplicating their behavior or rules.

Example use cases

• Package a repeated formatter workflow used across multiple projects into a tool skill.
• Create a knowledge skill that codifies API contract rules referenced by several teams.
• Standardize an onboarding checklist into a reusable hybrid skill with automation scripts.
• Split a monolithic policy+framework guide into two focused skills following the hard split rule.
• Scaffold a new agent capability that must pass local quality checks before activation.