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 your capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
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.
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# Skill Creator
This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills.
## About Skills
Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend your capabilities by providing
specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific
domains or tasks—they transform you 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 you needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260928.6911cf8, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_khym2xkxuuyk2xhb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jim60105/copilot-prompt/skill-creator
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/77b99156f2f542bdd5225704354603b764c64bc791e30fa359f878a73a4f3746
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jim60105/copilot-prompt · skills/commit/SKILL.md · Create a git commit with clear, conventional commit messages. You MUST read this when the user wants to commit staged…
jim60105/copilot-prompt · skills/containerfile-creator/SKILL.md · Create high-quality, secure, and performance-optimized Containerfiles (Dockerfiles) following best practices for…
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bytedance/deer-flow · skills/public/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a…
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cherryhq/cherry-studio · resources/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create, edit, evaluate, and optimize skills, including benchmarking and description tuning for better triggering.
anthropics/claude-plugins-official · plugins/skill-creator/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a…
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garrytan/gbrain · plugin/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills following the GBrain conformance standard. Generates SKILL.md
with frontmatter, Contract, Phases…
garrytan/gbrain · skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills following the GBrain conformance standard. Generates SKILL.md
with frontmatter, Contract, Phases…
