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skill-creator is agent-read markdown (skill) from aws-samples/sample-strands-agents-agentskills: 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..

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What the file says

# Skill Creator

This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills.

## About Skills

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing
specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific
domains or tasks—they transform Claude from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent
equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.

### What Skills Provide

1. Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
2. Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs
3. Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
4. Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks

## Core Principles

### Concise is Key

The context window is a public good. Skills share the context window with everything else Claude needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.
…

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How to install

Latest version
mdr add aws-samples/sample-strands-agents-agentskills/skill-creator@git:20260113.c5564fc
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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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  • 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
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  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

aws-samples/sample-strands-agents-agentskills · 91 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-10 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kh6thqhlwdfcca4a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aws-samples/sample-strands-agents-agentskills/skill-creator
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b2e3d83f60425c2d0b9d4162efb8f9aa322b45843497340f2289f42be422801c

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