create-skill

SKILL.md

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend your capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific domains or tasks—they transform you from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.

The context window is a public good. Skills share the context window with everything else you need: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.

Default assumption: You already have significant capabilities. Only add context you don't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Do you really need this explanation?" and "Does this paragraph justify its token cost?"

Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends your capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations. Source: microck/ordinary-claude-skills.

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