skill-creator_skill

Overview

This skill guides you through creating effective skills that extend an agent with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tool integrations. It focuses on practical steps: planning reusable content, initializing a skill scaffold, editing the skill content, and validating the skill in real usage. The guidance emphasizes concise context, appropriate degrees of freedom, and progressive disclosure to keep agents efficient.

How this skill works

The skill inspects your intended use cases and helps translate them into reusable resources: scripts, reference documents, and output assets. It provides a step-by-step creation process—understand examples, plan resources, initialize a scaffold, edit instructions and resources, then validate and iterate. It also recommends structure and loading patterns so the agent only loads what it needs when it needs it.

When to use it

• You want to create a new skill for an agent
• You need to update or modify an existing skill
• You need guidance on skill structure, metadata, or triggers
• You want to design workflows, scripts, or asset bundles for repeatable tasks
• You want to validate or iterate a skill based on real usage

Best practices

• Keep the metadata short and explicit about when the skill should trigger
• Make the skill body concise; move large details into reference files
• Use scripts for deterministic code and assets for output templates
• Match specificity to fragility: low freedom for fragile sequences, higher freedom for heuristic tasks
• Organize references by domain or variant and avoid deep nesting

Example use cases

• Create an image-editor skill with scripts to rotate or remove red-eye and assets for templates
• Build a PDF-processing skill with a rotate script and references for form handling
• Scaffold a frontend boilerplate skill with assets containing starter project files
• Design a data-query skill with reference files documenting table schemas and example queries
• Iterate an existing skill by adding validation scripts and condensed usage examples