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 Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
Initial release of the skill-designer-agent-skills package. - Provides a comprehensive guide for creating effective skills that extend Claude's capabilities. - Outlines the core principles for skill authoring: conciseness, setting appropriate specificity, and progressive disclosure for managing context usage. - Details the anatomy of a skill, including mandatory SKILL.md structure, optional bundled resources (scripts, references, assets), and strict exclusions (no extra documentation files). - Includes best practices for organizing supporting files, keeping core instructions lean, and managing large or specialized resources through reference files. - Explains context management strategies to optimize efficiency when skills are loaded and used.