skill-creation-walkthrough SKILL.md skillA
skill-creation-walkthrough from rampstackco/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rampstackco/claude-skills/skill-creation-walkthrough@git:20260507.ac2b078Pins git:20260507.ac2b078 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rampstackco/claude-skills
- Path
skills/skill-creation-walkthrough/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260507.ac2b078, committed May 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 28, 2026
- Size
- 13,937 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,037
- License
- MIT
Step-by-step guide for creating your own Claude Skills, from deciding whether a skill is the right tool to writing the SKILL.md file, structuring reference material, and making it trigger reliably. Use when you want to package a workflow, framework, or repeated task into a reusable Skill, when an existing skill is not triggering or not loading the right context, when you are auditing a skill that is underperforming, or when you want to publish a skill for others. Also triggers when someone…
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
A walkthrough for designing, writing, and maintaining your own Claude Skills. Covers when a skill is the right shape for your problem, how to write a description that actually triggers, how to structure SKILL.md and references, and how to test and iterate. ## When to use - You catch yourself writing the same prompt or instructions repeatedly. - You want to package a workflow or framework for reuse. - An existing skill of yours is not triggering when it should. - You are publishing skills for others to use. - You want to teach Claude a domain-specific way of working. - You are reviewing a skill someone wrote and need a quality bar. ## When NOT to use - For one-off prompts (just write the prompt). - For information that should live in system context, not progressive disclosure. - For changing Claude's general behavior across all conversations (use Claude.ai settings or system prompts, not skills). - For replacing tool calls (skills are instructions, not tools). ## Required inputs - The task or workflow you want to encode. - The audience: who will trigger this skill, in what kind of conversation. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rampstackco/claude-skills/skill-creation-walkthrough@sha256:d9562ff1d9ee3620The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260507.ac2b078, 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 5 versions of this file, between Apr 28, 2026 and May 7, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20260507.ac2b078 latest | 2026-05-07 | ac2b078 | 13,937 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.beb52c0 | 2026-05-06 | beb52c0 | 13,773 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260505.c80b896 | 2026-05-05 | c80b896 | 13,180 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260429.c2be03d | 2026-04-29 | c2be03d | 13,065 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.f066ffe | 2026-04-28 | f066ffe | 13,105 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 (13937 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
rampstackco/claude-skills · 1,037 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cdvrmelwsiiyhmud GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rampstackco/claude-skills/skill-creation-walkthrough GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d9562ff1d9ee3620cf728d0b7a062f2cc1a58508fcf9043b344bf23805e5608e
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.