Skill

Skill Creator

Skill

The official skill for writing skills that actually load.

Anthropic’s reference for SKILL.md: frontmatter, when to trigger, and how to keep a skill small enough that the model will use it.

spec·Apache-2.0·Updated this quarter·github.com/anthropics/skills

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By Anthropic

Input

A capability you want the model to invoke on purpose.

Output

A skill folder the runtime will actually load.

skill-creator.skill/invoke

You say

Turn this runbook into a skill Claude Code will pick up.

It returns

SKILL.md with a tight description, two examples, and a trigger that does not steal every chat.

Prompt notebook

Prompts this skill is built for.

  • You say

    Is this skill too long?

    It returns

    Cut the essay. Keep the contract and one worked example.

  • You say

    Write the YAML frontmatter only.

    It returns

    name, description, and when-to-use — no slogans.

What it teaches

  1. 01SKILL.md shape
  2. 02Triggers
  3. 03Eval loops