creating-skills SKILL.md skillA
creating-skills from agentworkforce/relay is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agentworkforce/relay/creating-skills@git:20260525.164e16bPins git:20260525.164e16b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agentworkforce/relay
- Path
.claude/skills/creating-skills-skill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260525.164e16b, committed May 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Dec 22, 2025
- Size
- 14,958 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,087
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when creating new Claude Code skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, CSO optimization, and real examples.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Creating Skills ## Overview **Skills are reference guides for proven techniques, patterns, or tools.** Write them to help future Claude instances quickly find and apply effective approaches. Skills must be **discoverable** (Claude can find them), **scannable** (quick to evaluate), and **actionable** (clear examples). **Core principle**: Default assumption is Claude is already very smart. Only add context Claude doesn't already have. ## When to Use **Create a skill when:** - Technique wasn't intuitively obvious - Pattern applies broadly across projects - You'd reference this again - Others would benefit **Don't create for:** - One-off solutions specific to single project - Standard practices well-documented elsewhere - Project conventions (put those in `.claude/CLAUDE.md`) ## Required Structure ### Frontmatter (YAML) ```yaml --- name: skill-name-with-hyphens description: Use when [triggers/symptoms] - [what it does and how it helps] tags: relevant-tags --- ``` **Rules:** - Only `name` and `description` fields supported (max 1024 chars total) - Name: letters, numbers, hyphens only (max 64 chars). Use gerund form (verb + -ing) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agentworkforce/relay/creating-skills@sha256:c5daed46fa9747eeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260525.164e16b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Dec 22, 2025 and May 25, 2026, about one every 154 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260525.164e16b latest | 2026-05-25 | 164e16b | 14,958 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20251222.586b3a2 | 2025-12-22 | 586b3a2 | 14,394 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14958 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
agentworkforce/relay · 1,087 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4hp6qbb4wozjwfte GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agentworkforce/relay/creating-skills GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c5daed46fa9747ee56b48e263cb1eda4611d0f33e5f54b5d4558a96dca03ee20
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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