simple-skill_skill

Overview

This skill is a minimal, educational example that introduces how a Claude Code skill is organized and behaves. It greets the user, explains core components and metadata, and demonstrates simple tool usage. It’s designed for learning and quick experimentation rather than production use.

How this skill works

When invoked, the skill performs a short guided workflow: it welcomes the user, describes the skill’s structure and metadata format, and walks through a phase-based execution pattern. It can demonstrate a permitted tool (Bash) by running a simple system command such as showing the current date/time and then explaining the output. The flow highlights how metadata, declared tools, and stepwise responsibilities combine to form a runnable skill.

When to use it

• Learn the basic anatomy of a Claude Code skill before building more complex skills
• Teach team members how metadata and tool declarations work
• Prototype a minimal skill to verify tool permissions and execution flow
• Demonstrate phase-based workflows and clear role responsibilities
• Validate formatting and content organization for new skill ideas

Best practices

• Keep responsibilities small and focused so each phase has a clear outcome
• Declare allowed tools explicitly and limit scope to what the skill needs
• Organize content into phases: greeting, explanation, demonstration, and wrap-up
• Include concise metadata (name, description, version, tags) to aid discoverability
• Start with a minimal prototype, then iterate and add complexity based on tests

Example use cases

• Onboard developers by walking them through a minimal working skill and live tool call
• Check that a tool integration (like Bash) is allowed and returns expected output
• Create a teaching demo to show how metadata and workflow map to runtime behavior
• Use as a scaffold for a new skill by replacing the demonstration steps with domain-specific logic
• Run a quick smoke test to confirm versioning and tags are correctly parsed