A meta-skill for creating, validating, and packaging Claude agent skills. This skill helps you build high-quality skills that extend Claude's capabilities.

What This Skill Does

The skill-creator automates the entire skill development lifecycle:

Interactive Skill Generation - Asks clarifying questions and generates proper structure
Validation - Validates SKILL.md format, naming conventions, and requirements
Packaging - Creates distributable skill packages
Guidance - Provides best practices and platform-specific guidance

When to Use

Claude will proactively use this skill when you:

Want to create a new skill
Need to validate an existing skill
Are packaging a skill for distribution
Want to learn skill development best practices

Quick Start

Simply ask Claude to create a skill:

"I want to create a skill for [purpose]"

Claude will guide you through the process using the skill-creator.

Files in This Skill

SKILL.md - Main skill definition with instructions
reference/ - Detailed reference documentation
- platform-differences.md - Platform-specific guidance (Claude.ai, API, Code)
- skill-examples.md - Complete example skills
- skill-specification.md - Technical specification
LICENSE.txt - Apache 2.0 license

Validation and Packaging Scripts

The skill creator references validation and packaging scripts that are available at the repository root level in scripts/:

validate_skill.py - Validates skills against specifications
package_skill.py - Creates distributable skill packages
skill_utils.py - Shared utilities

See the main repository README for how to use these scripts.

Platform Support

This skill works across:

Claude.ai - User-specific skills
Claude API - Workspace-wide skills
Claude Code - Project/user-level skills with full capabilities

License

Licensed under Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.txt for complete terms.

Original Source

This skill was originally developed at https://github.com/jgardner04/claude-skills-skill and has been integrated into this marketplace.