This skill provides guidance for writing Agent Skills that comply with the agentskills.io specification.
Metadata (100 tokens) loads at startup. SKILL.md (<5000 tokens) loads on activation. References load only when explicitly linked (not on activation). Keep SKILL.md lean.
Guidelines for writing Agent Skills. TRIGGERS: create a skill, new skill, write a skill, skill template, skill structure, review skill, skill PR, skill compliance, agentskills spec, SKILL.md format, skill frontmatter, skill best practices Source: tyler-r-kendrick/agent-skills.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/tyler-r-kendrick/agent-skills --skill skill-authoring Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw